| Description |
405 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
AVONFIC, PORTFIC, BMANADFIC, ENFDFIC, SWNDADFIC, WLKSADFIC |
| Subject |
Women dancers -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780316324687 (hardback) |
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031632468X (hardback) |
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