Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano

A sparkling, witty and clever first novel from young American writer Christopher Miller, purporting to be the liner notes of a boxes set of recordings of music by the recently deceased modernist composer Simon Silber, written by the man engaged by him as his biographer before he dies. In the course of the increasingly discursive liner notes we realise that a) the composer was probably crazy; b) a charlatan; c) the biographer hated him; and d) might well have had more than a little to do with the composer's early death...Simon Silber is a wickedly funny commentary on art, genius, jealousy and failure.