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Cargando... Frog Music (2014)por Emma Donoghue
  
Best Historical Fiction (277) Summer Reads 2014 (20) » 16 más Books Read in 2014 (130) Books Read in 2019 (329) Books Read in 2015 (526) Books Read in 2017 (2,313) Animals in the Title (12) Sense of place (100) Female Protagonist (785) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This story just went on and on! I was speed reading this book just to get to the end............... (  ) wincheryl | Jun 20, 2022 |  Too long, too much of Blanche's thoughts dragging the story. Also no focus. The setting is the smallpox epidemic ravaging California and the discrimination of Chinese immigrants, with subplots (or main plot?) about Jenny's murder, Blanche's suspicions about who the killers are, and Blanche's reconciliation with her son whom she entrusted to an infant farm with her belatedly discovering how poor the care is. The only thing interesting about the book is the setting that the story took place in. (  ) siok | Mar 5, 2022 | Really good. Engaging two-strand plot structure, great characters. (  ) essarbee | Dec 25, 2021 | A queer historical novel set in 1876 San Francisco about a burlesque dancer whose baby is taken from her and a woman who wears men’s clothes at a time when this was an arrestable offense. Then there’s a murder. This was a little quieter than some of Emma Donoghue’s other books and when I was done I was comparing it unfavorably in my head to my favorite of hers, Life Mask. But the story stuck with me and I keep thinking about it, so I’m realizing this book was actually pretty great. ( ) jollyavis | Dec 14, 2021 | The story is told in alternating chapters. We have the near past, which is right before a major event and then we have the period right after the event happens. I imagine they are creeping closer and closer to combining. ETA: they never did combine. And I started daydreaming of buying a paperback and separating the chapters and putting them in chronological order. As with THE WONDER we get a fictional historical story based on real people. And as with THE WONDER, I wasn't in love with the story but trusted the author to tell a good tale. I wasn't disappointed. Such low ratings which is sad because I don't think the book deserves that at all. I may not recommend it to everyone but I learned so much about the time period and I have come to trust Emma Donoghue so will always read her books. Listened on audio, loved the narrator, she has such range. She sang, she did different accents. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the book quite as much without her. CW: ------------------- NPR interview with author regarding this story: https://www.npr.org/2014/04/03/298362249/a-song-of-frogs-motherhood-and-murder-i.... ( ) Corinne2020 | Nov 23, 2021 |
 It’s easy to see why the bare bones of the murder of Jenny (or Jennie, Jeanne or Jeannie) Bonnet (or Bonnett) attracted Ms. Donoghue’s attention. A prolific writer still best known for her huge hit, “Room,” she is drawn to stories of brave, strong women who survive outrageous abuse at the hands of men, and “Frog Music” includes another such situation. Its hot-blooded central character is professionally known as Blanche la Danseuse, though her professional skills include a lot more than dancing
"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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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