Frog music :
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Frog music : a novel / Emma Donoghue. - First Edition. - Little, Brown, & Co. Large Print 2014 - 405 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398).
"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"--
9780316324687 (hardback) 9780316404587 (large print) 9780316371452 (international)
2014000840
Women dancers--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
FICTION / Crime.
FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / General.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.)--19th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR6054.O547 / F76 2014
LP F DON
Frog music : a novel / Emma Donoghue. - First Edition. - Little, Brown, & Co. Large Print 2014 - 405 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398).
"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"--
9780316324687 (hardback) 9780316404587 (large print) 9780316371452 (international)
2014000840
Women dancers--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
FICTION / Crime.
FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / General.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.
San Francisco (Calif.)--19th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR6054.O547 / F76 2014
LP F DON