Shared Sorrows
Frank DioGuardia, a New Jersey college professor always feared the onset of autumn.
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Shared Sorrows
Frank DioGuardia, a New Jersey college professor always feared the onset of autumn.
A chill in the air and rainy skies took him back to the day his father died decades ago. It was
a memory that each year caused Frank to start counting the days until he reached the milestone
of having spent more time on earth than his dad.
This year would be no different, bringing about the realization that after thirty years of marriage
and three children he had been inhabiting the earth for all the wrong reasons.
This realization came to Frank after he committed a violent act on a stranger during New York’s
Columbus Day parade. It also brought into his life Dr. Laurie McDevitt, the emergency room physician
who had treated his injuries after the incident. When she revealed that her father died on the same night
as his those many years before, Frank had a comrade in grief.
Will their shared sorrows be enough to survive the media frenzy that follows?
Shared Sorrows — a story of love and redemption.
What readers say about the book🧐
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, THE MUSIC OF WOMEN, and he now adds SHARED SORROWS to his impressive repertoire.Vincent has successfully tackled myriad themes as cores for his fine novels, and this time he deftly sculpts a story at the center of which is life’s transience and the effect of sorrow on outcomes that shape the lives of ‘survivors.’ The path into the novel is lucid from the opening lines: ‘Billows of steam from his shower enveloped the early morning thoughts of Frank DioGuardia. The whispers began on time. Dreaded October. One more Christopher Columbus Day parade to attend with the Ridgecrest, New Jersey, chapter of the Knights of Columbus. Five more days before the anniversary of his father’s death. Six mote months to live until he had breathed more air than his father, who, Frank all too easily recalled, died of a massive heart attack while bowling with fellow office workers at age sixty-on and six months…’How that moment evolves into a superior novel is explained in Vincent’s synopsis: ‘Frank DioGuardia, a New Jersey college professor always feared the onset of autumn. A chill in the air and rainy skies took him back to the day his father died decades ago. It was a memory that each year caused Frank to start counting the days until he reached the milestone of having spent more time on earth than his dad. This year would be no different, bringing about the realization that after thirty years of marriage and three children he had been inhabiting the earth for all the wrong reasons. This realization came to Frank after he committed a violent act on a stranger during New York's Columbus Day parade. It also brought into his life Dr. Laurie McDevitt, the emergency room physician who had treated his injuries after the incident. When she revealed that her father died on the same night as his those many years before, Frank had a comrade in grief. Will their shared sorrows be enough to survive the media frenzy that follows?’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, October 21
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Vincent Panettiere
VINCENT PANETTIERE
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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Frank DioGuardia, a New Jersey college professor always feared the onset of autumn.