Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes-Fast Shipping

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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.