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Frog music : a novel

Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

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\"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.

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Subject: Women dancers Fiction. / Murder Investigation Fiction. / FICTION / Crime. / FICTION / Family Life. / FICTION / General. / FICTION / Historical. / FICTION / Literary. / San Francisco (Calif.) 19th century Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780316324687, 031632468X, 9780316371452, 0316371459

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6054.O547 F76 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE