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Author:

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author.

Title:

Frog music / Emma Donoghue.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

405 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Women dancers--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.)--19th century--Fiction.
Songs--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
Jealousy--Fiction.
Secrets--Fiction.
Smallpox--Fiction.
Danzarinas--Novela.
Asesinato--Novela.
Investigación criminal--Novela.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Siglo XIX--Novela.
FICTION--Crime.
FICTION--Family Life.
FICTION--General.
FICTION--Historical.
FICTION--Literary.
Women dancers--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Women dancers.
Historical fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.)--19th century.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Siglo XIX.
California--San Francisco.
Murder--Investigation.
Women dancers.
California--San Francisco.
Women dancers--Fiction.
Criminal investigation--Fiction.
San Francisco, Calif.--Fiction.
1800-1899
Historical fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398).

Contents:

Darlin' -- I have got the blues -- There's the city -- Somebody's watching -- "Vive la Rose" -- I hardly knew ye -- Bang away -- When the train comes along.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0316324671
9780316324670
1447249771
9781447249771
0316371459
9780316371452
0316404586
9780316404587
031632468X
9780316324687

OCLC:

(OCoLC)855905294

LCCN:

2014000840

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls) — Copies: 5