Expectation : a Francisca Fruscella mystery /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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FC2,
2013
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 F. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781573668439 1573668435 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
