Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects

The first-ever novel written in the form of CD liner notes! In Christopher Millers sly uproarious debut the complete works of the prodigiously cranky composer Simon Silber get their diabolical due from Silbers official biographer a man who may well have grown to despise his subject. Glossing on Silbers odd musical oeuvre from his hourlong performances of the Minute Waltz to compositions evoking crow caws and siren screeches the notes veer into deliciously venomous commentary on the man himself whose grandiose excesses far exceed his actual talent. Evokes the delectable work of Max Beerbohm ? yet Millers postmodern flourishes take it into a new zanier territory said the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. In the tradition of Neal Pollack and David Foster Wallace Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects skewers conventions in a work of high entertainment and imagination.