Expectation A Francesca Fruscella Mystery |
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| Author:
| DeShell, Jeffrey |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57366-843-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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.