Expectation

By Jeffrey DeShell

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573661759
• ISBN13: 9781573661751
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: F2c
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"