num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes
titlecomplete: Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes
genres: Music, Fiction, Novels, Humor
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Mariner Books