Author

Publication

2014-04-01 - Little, Brown, and Company, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

101,250 words, Guess

Page Count

405 pages

Identifiers

and 7 more
  • ISBN-139780316324687
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014000840
  • OCLC Control Number855905294
  • Better World Books9780316324687
  • Better World Books9780316404587
  • Better World Books9780316371452
  • Open LibraryOL26274675M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6054.O547 F76 2014
  • LCCPR6054.O547 F76 2014b
and 1 more
  • LCCPR6054.O547F76 2014

Description

"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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