She has a challenging, feisty way of asking unwelcome but important questions, and she wins Blanche over immediately. She carries a gun and talks like a cowboy. She dresses like a man (and has gone to jail for it). But Jenny is such a cool customer that she brings down the temperature of any room she’s in. She shows up late in the blighted summer of 1876, when San Francisco is in the throes of a smallpox epidemic and an unbearable heat wave. Or whatever.īut all this changes when Jenny Bonnet arrives on the scene. Donoghue’s way of throwing verbal buckets of cold water on the book’s descriptions of sex: “the stuffed-to-bursting sensation that erases thought, the steam train of its movement, the frantic mazurka for two.” Or three. Blanche allows herself to become the body through which these two men connect, but she enjoys almost any kind of eroticism, whatever the situation.
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