Frog music /
Emma Donoghue.
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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"-- |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada :
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,
2014.
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Edition: | First Canadian edition. |
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Notes: | Includes song notes and glossary of French. Physical description: [8], 403 pages ; 23 cm more |
ISBN: | 9781443429115 1443429112 1447249747 (Cloth) 9781447249740 (Cloth) 031632468X (Cloth) 9780316324687 (Cloth) |