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:2015.
- Edition:First Back Bay paperback edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Back Bay Books/Little Brown
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:12 books, 1 discussion guide, 1 bag
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0316324671, 9780316324670, 1447249747, 9781447249740, 031632468X, 9780316324687, 0316404586, 9780316404587, 1447249771, 9781447249771, 1443429112, 9781443429115, 0316371459, 9780316371452, 1447249763, 9781447249764, 1478982489, 9781478982487, 144504014X, 9781445040141, 1445040158, 9781445040158, 1471266397, 9781471266393, 0316295191, 9780316295192
- oclc:ocn908196164
- LC Classification:PR6054.O153
- Dewey Decimal:823.9
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