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    Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
    Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
    Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
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    Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery

    By Jeffrey DeShell

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press
    Release dateSep 15, 2013
    ISBN9781573668439
    Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery

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