Frog music: a novel
"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 …
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- Full title :Frog music : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
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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"--
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- Publication Date:©2014
- Edition:First Canadian edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):HarperCollinsPublishersLtd
- Place of Publication:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
Notes
Includes song notes and glossary of French.
The Physical Object
- Description:405 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781443429115, 1443429112, 1447249747, 9781447249740, 031632468X, 9780316324687, 9781443429139, 1443429139
- oclc:ocn861064046
- LC Classification:PR6054.O547
- Dewey Decimal:C813/.54
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