BASED ON THE Award winning country music song of the same name
VINCENT BLACK LIGHTNING, 1952
by Al Sciarrino 
Hardcover: 256 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0978721398
Available Summer 2009
Fans of country music were captivated by the Del McCoury Band’s 2002 hit “Vincent Black Lightning, 1952.” Written by noted folkster Richard Thompson, the song about young robber James Adie, who gives his beloved motorbike to his girlfriend just before he dies, has the emotional force of an ancient murder ballad and the narrative drive of the best of country music. This unusual novel takes the song’s basic story and expands it into a moving tale of star-crossed lovers.
About the Author
Alfred Sciarrino is a business and entertainment law professor at State University of New York, teaches a course on Music and the Law at the Eastman School of Music and has been an aficionado of country music and motorcycles his entire life, infinitely qualified to author a novel that combines the two. Sciarrino appeared on Oprah for his former historical fiction title OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL.
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