Frog Music
Emma Donoghue's Frog Music (2014) is a sapphic fiction and historical fiction novel. The story is set in San Francisco, Calif. and California, in the 19th century. Characters include A. Andrae and Englisch,. It deals with women dancers, Asesinato, Family Life and crime.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 23 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 16 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list in 2014.
It runs to roughly 405 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Frog Music
"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"--
Awards & lists
- 📰New York Times bestseller list — Hardcover Fiction, 2014
Quick answers
Who wrote Frog Music?
Frog Music was written by Emma Donoghue and first published in 2014.
What genre is Frog Music?
It is usually shelved as Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction and Historical Fiction.
How long is Frog Music?
The median edition has 405 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Frog Music?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Art of Detection, The Story of a Marriage and A Grave Talent.
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