Frog Music is also a tour of the music that made our Country tick over a century ago and some the lyrics call up a time that was politically incorrect, anything goes and even as bawdy as a contemporary night club. Fortunately for the reader, Emma Donoghue sets a high bar to reach with her next novel/5(). 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. By Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown. pp. $ We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to. 'Frog Music,' by Emma Donoghue. Caroline Leavitt. Ma Updated: April 3, p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. 5. 1 of 5 Buy Photo Shannon May/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of 5. 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, despite being distant in time and place from the events of Room, turns around many of the same concerns. It is, as Donoghue described Room in another interview, a "defamiliarisation of. The same cannot be said of Donoghue’s new novel, “Frog Music,” which is based on a true-life unsolved murder that occurred on the outskirts of San Francisco in the summer of 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.
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