The Music of Women

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. Grady Harp Read full review at Good Reads