Frog music
Subtitle: a novel
By: Emma Donoghue
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company; Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-04
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780316324687
Subjects: Women dancers; Asesinato; Family Life; Crime; Literary; Danzarinas; Investigacio n criminal; Investigation; Novela; Historical; General; FICTION; Fiction; Murder
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398).
Table of contents: title: Darlin'; title: I have got the blues; title: There's the city; title: Somebody's watching; title: "Vive la Rose"; title: I hardly knew ye; title: Bang away; title: When the train comes along.