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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Donoghue, Emma
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| Publisher: |
Little Brown and Company
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| Date: |
04/01/2014
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: Her greatest achievement yet...Emma Donoghue shows more than range with
Frog Music -- she shows genius.- Darin Strauss, author of
Half a Life.
Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named 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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