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03270aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 30FE346C2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 180305t20182018oncc 000 f eng d 010 $a 2018411794 020 $a 1771334967 020 $a 9781771334969 020 $a 1771334932 020 $a 9781771334938 035 $a (OCoLC)1042933172 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d OCLCO $d UAB $d YDX $d OCLCF $d DLC $d NLC $d BDX $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9199.4.D389 $b M34 2018 055 0 $a PS8607 A98 $b M33 2018 082 04 $a C813/.6 $2 23 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 084 $a coll13 $2 lacc 100 1 $a Day, Dian, $e author. 245 14 $a The Madrigal : $b a novel / $c Dian Day. 264 1 $a Toronto, Canada : $b Inanna Publications and Education Inc., $c [2018] 300 $a 373 pages : $b portrait ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Inanna poetry & fiction series 520 $a "Meet Frederick Madrigal: the seventh son of a struggling woman on welfare who already had three sets of male twins spaced two years apart. A one-time child prodigy, Frederick was the subject of the benevolent index finger of God. While his older brothers ran wild, the sensitive and musically gifted Frederick began to sneak out of the house to sing for spare change in front of city bars and nightclubs, his repertoire learned from his mother's secret midnight singing. Through the intervention of a number of well intentioned benefactors, he ends up in a church choir, and from there, at the age of twelve, is drafted into a choir school in Toronto. He's happy to go, and leaves his mother and brothers behind without a thought. But just after his eighteenth birthday, in public, Everything Crashes Down, and in another miraculous escape, he chooses against his musical destiny. In mid-life, Frederick is deliverer of Canada Post mail; teacher of Voice; keeper of secrets; caretaker of his demented mother; lousy with dates. Still, it appears that everything is more or less satisfactory and under control ... until God once again starts pointing--but this time He seems a little cranky. The Madrigal is a work of literary fiction that explores the experience of solitude, the meaning of extraordinary talent, and the role of memory throughout our lives. Rather than a coming of age story, it is a "coming to terms story," as Frederick must let go of the unfulfilled expectations of his childhood and find deliverance from the tragic end-of-childhood events he believes he carries responsibility for. In doing so, Frederick brings a unique twist to a timeless journey of self-forgiveness and relationships with other."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Singers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gifted children $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Gifted children. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00942561 650 7 $a Interpersonal relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977397 650 7 $a Singers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01119301 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 830 0 $a Inanna poetry & fiction series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191122014503.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=30FE346C2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search