Accordion Crimes is a 1996 novel by American writer E. Annie Proulx.

It is "Accordion Crimes."

Loved the book, Accordion Crimes also, in patches.

The device that links together the episodes in E. Annie Proulx's strange, powerfully written new novel, "Accordion Crimes," may seem simple enough.

But if "Accordion Crimes" sounds symbolically straightforward as a fable of cultural dilution, in the working out of its themes the novel is far more complicated.

Similar incidents occur on almost every page of "Accordion Crimes," and to itemize them is paradoxically to reduce their horror.

Some of the violence in "Accordion Crimes" does make a point.

Her new book, "Accordion Crimes," is being published by Scribner's.

This remarkable collection occasionally put me in mind of Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, with its sweep of American origins and places.

A rat king portentously appears in a sub-section of the same name in E. Annie Proulx's fictional work Accordion Crimes.