The Blind Accordionist is a masterful book of world-making by the real C.D. Rose, absorbing in its mix of intelligence and light-heartedness, and its ultimate celebration of literature itself. It is the third novel in the series about 'C.D. Rose,' although the reader does not need to have read the previous two books. Like those books, The Blind Accordionist can be read both as a simple but wonderful collection of quirky stories, and as comedy - or as a beautiful and moving elegy on the nobility of writers wanting to be read.