![]() there is an author's note in which she describes all the research she did for this book, and the difficulties she faced with much of the primary materials having been destroyed in the fire and earthquake of 1906, and a later fire in 1921, plus an extensive back matter section for all the songs used in the book and their provenance and meaning, as well as a glossary with all the french terms, which was particularly helpful when it came to the slang. ![]() emma donoghue is one of those authors who does all the right things when it comes to her historical fiction. which makes it a perfect book to have read during this polar vortex situation. it is an entirely serious book based on an unsolved murder case in san francisco in 1876, during the smallpox epidemic and a terrible heat wave. ![]() One journalist kindly alerted me to the fact that there was a hoax in my Wikipedia entry, a claim that I was writing about 'the murder of a cross-dressing frog-catcher!' - and was abashed when I told him it was true.Īnd it is indeed a story about that, although it sounds a bit silly described that way, but it's not at all a silly book. ![]()
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