Accordion Crimes
by:
Annie Proulx (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00121SI5U
Publish date: December 1st 2007
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
It's rare that I give up on a book, especially when someone has personally recommended it to me, but I cannot stand this book. There is no rhythm or flow. Just when you think the writer has hit her stride and things are finally going to move along, she slams the door of boredom in your face. This...
Let me start by saying that Accordion Crimes, by E. Annie Proulx (1996), is beautifully written. The exquisite level of detail, the masterful evocation of time and place with only a few strokes of the authorial brush, the perfect balance between dialect and standard English in the voices of the char...
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