THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, July 7, 1996                  TAG: 9607040034
SECTION: COMMENTARY              PAGE: J2   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Book Review
SOURCE: BY POLLY PADDOCK
                                            LENGTH:   21 lines

AN INSTRUMENT OF DISCOVERY PULITZER-WINNER ANNIE PROULX USES A GREEN BUTTON ACCORDION'S TRAVELS TO TELL A WICKEDLY FUNNY TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA.

ACCORDION CRIMES

E. ANNIE PROULX

Scribner. 381 pp. $26.

[This review is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] MEMO: Polly Paddock is book editor of The Charlotte Observer. by CNB