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Frog music / Emma Donoghue.
Van Pelt Library PR6054.O547 F76 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women dancers--Fiction.
- Women dancers.
- Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Murder--Investigation.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--19th century--Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Songs--Fiction.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Poverty--Fiction.
- Jealousy--Fiction.
- Secrets--Fiction.
- Smallpox--Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Lesbian fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--19th century.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Siglo XIX.
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Lesbian fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 405 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398).
- Stonewall Honor Books in Literature, Winner, 2015
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Frog music.
- ISBN:
- 9780316324687
- 031632468X
- 9780316404587
- 0316404586
- 9780316371452
- 0316371459
- 9781447249771
- 1447249771
- 9780316324670
- 0316324671
- OCLC:
- 855905294
- Publisher Number:
- 9780316324687
- 99957740446
- Online:
- http://www.Emmadonoghue.com
- http://www.littlebrown.com
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