Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects

Written as liner notes to fictional music Christopher Miller''s uproarious debut novel skewers conventions in a work of high entertainment and imagination. In Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects the complete works of the prodigiously cranky composer Simon Silber get their diablolical due from Silber''s official biographer -- a man who grows to hate his subject. Not content with simply discussing Silber''s odd musical oeuvre -- whose highlights include an hourlong performance of the Minute Waltz an etude composed on a telephone keypad and a transcription of crow caws -- the commentator veers into a delightfully venomous exposé of a musician whose grandiose ambitions far exceed his actual talent.