Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Erotica / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:224
  • Paperback ISBN:9781098332358

The Music of Women

By Vincent Panettiere

Overview

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 shit, 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."
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Description

WHAT DOES A MAN THINK ABOUT WHEN HE IS STANDING ON THE EDGE OF HIS OWN LIFE? Not his career. Not his money. Not the house overlooking the ocean or the record breaking book advance sitting in his bank account. He thinks about the women. Charlie Forte has everything the world told him to want. A celebrated writing career. A beautiful home in Los Angeles. A level of success most writers only dream about. And on the most triumphant day of his professional life, he makes a quiet, private decision that has nothing to do with any of it. He is going to kill himself. What follows is not a tragedy. It is something far stranger, darker, and more human than that. A stone garden wall and a darkly comic twist of fate leave Charlie suspended between the life he planned to abandon and the one he never fully understood. And in that stillness, they come flooding back. Twenty four women. Each one a chapter of his life he never properly closed. Each one tied to a song he has never been able to silence. There is the infatuation that burned without ever truly catching. The affair that quietly dismantled his career. The wife he stayed married to the way a man stays in a city he stopped loving years ago. And threading through every memory, persistent and unshakeable, there is Sierra. The one that never fully left. Vincent Panettiere writes with the brutal honesty of a man who has seen enough of the world to stop pretending. Charlie is not easy to love. He is petulant, self aware, darkly funny, and maddeningly human. His confessions are raw and uncomfortable. His voice pulls you in and does not let go. Part literary fiction. Part erotic stream of consciousness. Part cautionary tale for every man who has ever been undone by the ageless, irresistible siren song of women. EVERY LIFE HAS A SOUNDTRACK. MOST PEOPLE NEVER STOP LONG ENOUGH TO HEAR IT. .
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About The Author

Biography Vincent Panettiere was not born in a trunk at the Princess Theatre in Pocatello, Idaho, but in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from St. John's University and went to graduate school at Boston University. After college he became a sports writer for the wire service United Press International (UPI) and later wrote for the Boston Herald, a major daily newspaper in that city before Rupert Murdochized it. After holding executive positions at Westinghouse Broadcasting, CBS and Xerox he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a screen writer. Four of his scripts were optioned but not produced, one by Twentieth Century Fox and the others by now-defunct production companies. He became a licensed and bonded literary agent representing writers and directors in television and films. He made deals for writers and directors on TV series, including Xena, The Untouchables and Babylon 5. He was also instrumental in the production of two independent feature films and the sale of numerous indie/MOW film scripts. During the same time, Panettiere was certified by the Major League Baseball Players Association to serve as an agent for major league and professional baseball players. Clients he represented played in the major leagues for the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals. Objecting to the standard means of financing independent films, Panettiere sought non-traditional funding for his writer/director clients. His journey through the murky world of cyberspace was chronicled in his first book The Internet Financing Illusion published in 2007. Next, Panettiere turned to fiction. In A Woman to Blame, Panettiere created the character of Chicago police detective Mike Hegan. This was followed by These Thy Gifts, a second novel featuring Hegan, The Scopas Factor and his latest, The Music of Women. There is more information on Panettiere and his books on the website www.vincentpanettiere.com. He continues to live in Los Angeles and has eaten dinner in Pocatello, Idaho.
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