![]() ![]() The sensationalist events are summed up in a brief account from the Sept. All but a few supporting characters are based on real people. In her new novel, “Frog Music,” Donoghue returns to the more distant past to take on an unsolved San Francisco murder: that of young Jenny Bonnet, shot by an unknown killer lurking outside her railway hotel room. ![]() Her most recent work, the multiple-award-winning international bestseller “Room,” took a more contemporary approach, loosely inspired by the experiences of women recently held captive by abusive men. “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them,” wrote James Baldwin in “Notes of a Native Son.” Much of novelist Emma Donoghue’s literary career has involved the liberation of historical figures, often women, from the constraints of the recorded past to the relative freedom of fiction, as in her novels “Slammerkin,” “The Sealed Letter” and “Life Mask,” all set in the 18th or 19th century. ![]()
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