Los Angeles author Vincent Panettiere began his colorful career as a sports writer for a wire service UPU and Boston Herald, altered his path by accepting several executive positions at CBS and Fox Network, wrote several film scripts yet to be produced and served as a literary agent for television and film writers and directors, and as a sports agent for major league and professional baseball players. He is the author of THE INTERNET FINANCING SOLUTION, and while that book is an expose of Internet scams, it is also the experience of the author and his personal unfortunate experiences with the Internet global scams. With the success of that first outing with writing, he followed with well-sculpted mystery thrillers - THE SCOPAS FACTOR, THESE THY GIFTS, A WOMAN TO BLAME. Now he adds THE MUSIC OF WOMEN to his impressive repertoire.
There seem to be few themes for novels that Vincent has not mastered. His ability to create immediately accessible characters and locations is likely related to his gifts as a screenwriter. Enter this novel through the front door as we meet Charlie, the narrator of this story: ‘Charlie Forte opened the polished doors of the mission-style cabinet – not an original but a damn good copy – that held his store of liquor. Three years ago, Jessica, his wife, banned the piece from their new house on the advice of the elfin interior decorator she hired after the record-setting advance Charlie received for his latest novel had settled into their bank account. The demonstrative darling, whose primary talent was to wave his arms like an Armani-clad sorcerer, said this handsome piece of furniture clashed with the “palate” he was creating for their living space. Charlie determined “palate” was decorator’s newspeak. He feigned smelling his armpit and groused into it, “It’s my living room, not an effing atelier.” He knew he could have said artist’s studio or garret, but no one heard him, and it didn’t matter if they did.’ In just a few lines, a personality becomes visual and the style of the narrative imbues the novel.
Panettiere’s prose incorporates raw language as is befitting the character and the story concept. In some writer’s hands, the use of the vernacular can become overbearing, but this author incorporates it skillfully, enhancing the personality of Charlie as a writer! The story – ‘Success does not usually equate with death— unless you happen to be novelist Charlie Forte. When Charlie receives the largest book advance of his career, he comes to two conclusions: He is a [expletive], and he is going to kill himself. But, a stone garden wall and twenty-four women cause him to experience what he likes to call "planus interruptus." Charlie experiences the women in his life through the music he associates with them.’
Vincent Panettiere continues to impress as a writer of considerable substance. His insights, sensitivity to issues, contemporary and enduring ones, and his polished prose place him in the upper echelon of today’s literary giants. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, May 21
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- Anastasia StylesReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2021
Well-written and unpleasant
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