Accordion Crimes
Not quite done reading Accordion Crimes; it's been at least a month and a half, while "Blink" was done in a couple of days. Maybe it's the paragraph-long sentences that Proulx seems to prefer; maybe it's the fact that the mostly-unfortunate characters who come into contact with the accordion all seem to be major losers; maybe it's the smattering of phrases in languages I don't speak (Spanish, French, Polish, Basque!); maybe it's all the vomiting; maybe it's just that Proulx's book is twice as long and the finer print is harder to read :-).
At any rate, I'm not quite as dazzled by this one as I was when I read Close Range or The Shipping News.
At least she got to use the joke about putting all your Basques in one exit.
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