Simon Silber, Works For Solo Piano

by Christopher Miller. http://bit.ly/13upsN

A cranky, curmudgeonly composer is the ostensible protagonist of this hilarious debut novel, a sendup of classical music conventions that begins when the obscure Simon Silber convinces his new biographer, first-person narrator Norman Fayreweather Jr. to elevate Silber’s musical status by chronicling his career as if he were already famous.—Publisher’s Weekly