Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects : A Novel in Liner Notes

by Christopher Miller

2020-03-20 16:33:09

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 compose... Read more
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 expose of a musician whose grandiose ambitions far exceed his actual talent. Less

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File size7.98x4.92x0.7inches
Print pages271
PublisherMariner Books
Publication date July 1, 2004
ISBN9780618382781

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