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From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room Her greatest achievement yetEmma Donoghue shows more than range with FROG MUSIC--she shows genius -- Darin Strauss author of Half a LifeSummer of 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 Jennys murderer to justice--if he doesnt 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 Its 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 huntsIn thrilling cinematic style FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten never-solved crime Full of songs that migrated across the world Emma Donoghues lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.
About the Author
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose novels include the international bestseller "Room" (her screen adaptation was nominated for four Oscars) , "Frog Music", "Slammerkin," "The Sealed Letter," "Landing," "Life Mask," "Hood," and "Stirfry." Her story collections are "Astray", "The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits," "Kissing the Witch," and "Touchy Subjects." She also writes literary history, and plays for stage and radio. She lives in London, Ontario, with her partner and their two children.
