Frog music : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
Material type: TextPublication details: Little, Brown, & Co. Large Print 2014Edition: First EditionDescription: 405 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780316324687 (hardback)
- 9780316404587 (large print)
- 9780316371452 (international)
- LP F DON
- PR6054.O547 F76 2014
- FIC050000 | FIC045000 | FIC000000 | FIC014000 | FIC019000
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Fairmount Public Library Fiction | Fiction | LP F DON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | T 42882 |
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"--
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