Frog music

a novel

405 pages

English language

Published Dec. 8, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-316-32468-7
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OCLC Number:
855905294

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3 stars (1 review)

"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 …

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3 stars

This book has taken me FOREVER to read. I initially took it out as an audio book. I didn't finish it in time. So then I took out the ebook. Again, didn't finish it in time. Then I took out a hard copy. I made more progress than my previous attempts combined but I still did not finish it. It wasn't until yesterday that I resolved to plow through the book. I alternated between the aduiobook and the ebook but ultimately listened to the audiobook to the end. Surprisingly, I made it. I don't really know why this took me so long. It's interesting enough and I enjoyed to storyline. Maybe I've just been busy and maybe lately I haven't been busy enough.

But I did enjoy this book, to an extent. I like historical book and especially non-hetero historical characters. I was also invested in the Petit storyline as …

Subjects

  • Women dancers
  • Asesinato
  • Family Life
  • Crime
  • Literary
  • Danzarinas
  • Investigacio n criminal
  • Investigation
  • Novela
  • Historical
  • General
  • FICTION
  • Fiction
  • Murder

Places

  • San Francisco (Calif.)