Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects — Christopher Miller

The first-ever novel written in the form of CD liner notes! In Christopher Miller"s sly, uproarious debut, the complete works of the prodigiously cranky composer Simon Silber get their diabolical due from Silber"s official biographer, a man who may well have grown to despise his subject. Glossing on Silber"s 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 Miller"s
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.