Ebook {Epub PDF} Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

7 rows ·  · In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of Brand: Little, Brown and Company. Frog Music. by. Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 25, ratings · 3, reviews. Summer 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/5. Frog Music. Frog Music: Summer of 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. . Read More +. + Read More.

From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: "Her greatest achievement yet Emma Donoghue shows more than range with FROG MUSIC--she shows genius.". Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, Paperback (ISBN: ) Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room. San Francisco, a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Frog Music Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $27 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Held Captive: PW Talks with Emma Donoghue; Children in Peril: Emma Donoghue.

Emma Donoghue’s historical novel Frog Music is set in San Francisco, when a summer heat wave smothers the city, a small-pox epidemic sweeps through households, and anti-Chinese-immigrant hostilities surge. Amid all that is the unsolved murder of Jenny Bonnet, a frog-catching free spirit whose defiance of the local ordinance against cross-dressing repeatedly landed her in jail. Frog Music is set in San Francisco in , during a summer notable not only for its record-setting heat waves but also for its smallpox epidemic, one of many that plagued the United States during the nineteenth century even as efforts were being made to eradicate the disease through vaccination and inoculation. According to Donoghue's afterword, the epidemic left (of the roughly , residents) dead, and more than 1, infected with the highly infectious and debilitating disease. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of.