{"product_id":"expectation-2","title":"Expectation","description":"On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—\u003ci\u003eExpectation\u003c\/i\u003e is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns rapturous, rigorous, and gripping, \u003ci\u003eExpectation \u003c\/i\u003eis a thriller of another kind—and a bold venture to the limits of the mystery genre and language itself.","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55331907240280,"sku":"9781573661751","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781573661751_9af1569b-2a52-4227-add5-44838002b8f5.jpg?v=1779516032","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/expectation-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}