Expectation
Overview
On the surface a murder mystery--a detective's search for the killer of five people in Denver--Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music. In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg--by turns traditional, serial, and atonal--to inform his grammar and language. Moving progressively through specific Schoenberg compositions, DeShell complicates the surface of his text into lyrical derivatives, all the while drawing us into a murder mystery like no other as Detective Francisca Fruscella pursues both the killer and her own complicated personal history. By turns rapturous, rigorous, and gripping, Expectation is a thriller of another kind--and a bold venture to the limits of the mystery genre and language itself.
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- ISBN-13: 9781573661751
- ISBN-10: 1573661759
- Publisher: FC2
- Publish Date: September 2013
- Dimensions: 8.47 x 5.55 x 0.37 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.36 pounds
- Page Count: 120
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