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      Expectation

      by Jeffrey DeShell
      Published
      Sep 2013
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      120
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      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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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      First Edition Sep 2013 F2c ISBN13 9781573661751 ISBN10 1573661759
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      Sep 2013 University of Alabama Press ISBN13 9781573668439 ISBN10 1573668435
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      Sep 2013 Fiction Collective 2 ISBN10 B00H99PD4S
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