Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes
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.
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Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes
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.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780618382781 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 07/19/2004 |
| Edition description: | First Mariner Books Edition |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.71(d) |
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