John Pacenza

The Guitarist John Pacenza

The Guitarist is a romantic novel about a successful rock group set mostly in 1977, the momentous year when Elvis died. It was a time when Country Rock was hitting it's peak and promiscuity was raging it's fullest roar. The band tours throughout the country briefly visiting Beale Street in Memphis, the birthplace of rock and roll. The story features a child with Down's Syndrome whose intelligence impresses all those fortunate enough to know her. It contains a champion womanizer who's camaraderie towards his friends touches them all. It includes Vietnam Veterans striving for absolution and young, pretty girls who'll believe anything a handsome guitarist tells them. It involves people who've lost all hope for success and some, all hope for life itself. One young man brings them all together into his world, with a belief in love, magic and a pair of blue suede shoes that symbolically bind him with the people he loves most. With a heart wrenching ending it will re-evaluate your impression of the quintessential rock and roll band lifestyle.