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         A mainstream contemporary novel laced with the struggles and ambivalence of a young man's desire to be a jazz musician and the forces that move him in another direction - toward the classics.  How this dilemma resolves itself and the escapades along the way and beyond will both rouse, yet soothe your quest for escape from the mundane!

        The Virtuoso is a story of romance. A love story as well as a story with scarlet moments of lust from that oldest story of all -  the story of human frailty against the spear of temptation.  The lives of John Dupree and Sophia Berry are played out against a  canvas of music and on the darker side - prostitution. Where will John's life take us?  Where will Sophia's life take her? Be prepared for three dimensional characters and convoluted plots.  "The Virtuoso" will transport you - drawing you into the story to live each scene.

        Most of all, "The Virtuoso" is about discovery.  We play out our lives in hopes of finding fame, fortune, love and perhaps peace of mind.  After playing out the panoramas of our life we may simply discover what was hidden before our eyes all the while - a felicity that simply needed to be recognized.  While we all seem to be on such a quest, the question here is: "Will John Dupree find it?"

        We all enjoy a good story.  Many of us are visual. We like to be entertained with action and want to see our heros and heroines bring the story to us through the medium of sight and sound. A safari of the senses! Others are simply listeners, and enjoy sitting back and let the sounds and our imagination put it together for us.  Then, we have the readers - they prefer to assemble the whole story in the mind - guided by the writer's imagination and communicated by the written word.  Ahhh!  The written word!  The tenacles of our senses absorbing these well crafted words that form shapes and colors and actions and even sounds and smells that blossom in our imagination according to our past experiences as the words unfold against our memories.

Perhaps, "The Virtuoso" is a looming contemporary classic. A screenplay cloaked as a novel, at present. You will be the judge!