MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02432cam a2200409 i 4500
001 2014000840
003 DLC
005 20141111082239.0
008 140114s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2014000840
020 $a9780316324687 (hardback)
020 $a9780316404587 (large print)
020 $a9780316371452 (international)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6054.O547$bF76 2014
082 00 $a823/.914$223
084 $aFIC050000$aFIC045000$aFIC000000$aFIC014000$aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aDonoghue, Emma,$d1969-
245 10 $aFrog music :$ba novel /$cEmma Donoghue.
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Company,$c2014.
300 $a405 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 385-398).
650 0 $aWomen dancers$vFiction.
650 0 $aMurder$xInvestigation$vFiction.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$y19th century$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
650 7 $aFICTION / Crime.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Family Life.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh