Sudden noises from inanimate objects
Subtitle: a novel in liner notes
By: Christopher Miller.
Edition: 1st Mariner books ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Mariner Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Composers -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Simon Silber has a huge ego, a pushy father, a house full of pianos, a closet full of tuxedos - in short, all the trappings of musical genius except genius itself. He seeks inspiration by walking around town with his eyes shut or by transcribing the pattern of crows perched on his backyard power lines.

His singular contributions to modern music - an hourlong perfomance of the "Minute Waltz," an etude composed on a telephone keypad, a "chord-a-day" diary, among many others - may not please the ear, but they delight the fancy.".

"As recounted by his biographer-cum-friend-cum-enemy, Norm Fayrewether, Silber's life story becomes the tragicomic personification of thwarted potential. Norm, himself a frustrated artist (if writing aphorisms can be called an art), mingles biography with autobiography, treating us to a hilarious exploration of the nether realm between brilliance and the desire for it.

Norm's fraught relationship with Silber also sheds piercing light on the volatile bonds between artist and subject, mentor and protege, truth and self-promotion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A mariner book."
Originally published as: Simon Silber, in 2002.