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Expectation
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Jeffrey DeShell is the author of the novels In Heaven Everything is Fine, S & M, Peter: An (A)Historical Romance, The Trouble with Being Born, and Arthouse.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781573661751
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press, (30 September 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 102
- Weight
- 525 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 10 mm
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