Frog Music
A Novel
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Format: Ebook
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"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Women dancers -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
FICTION / Crime.
FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / General.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.
Historical.
Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Women dancers -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
FICTION / Crime.
FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / General.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.
Historical.
Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780316295192
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