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Growing up in post-World War II America, Daniel Lorelli enjoys unprecedented opportunity while also being confronted with diverse moral dilemmas in a quickly changing society. As a supremely talented pianist, and then as an orchestra conductor, Daniel rises to international acclaim in the world of classical music. It is also a story about one mans struggle to comprehend and live in a world compromised for him by hypocrisy and deceit. Throughout the novel, the uplifting role that good music can provide is expertly brought into play and woven into the narrative. One gets a glimpse into the fascinating world of classical music. Here is a story of passionate love, involving four women and Daniels relationships with them, marked by varying degrees of happiness, heartbreak, and personal fulfillment.
Raised by secular parents, William Prince has no real connection to religion until he meets and falls in love with Christine O'Connell, a devout Catholic woman. To marry her, he agrees to be baptized into the Catholic Church, but Christine's strict adherence to dogma compromises their marriage. William's subsequent trip to Italy takes him on an odyssey to understand the meaning of beliefs he finds problematical. His quest to uncover the mystery behind a phenomenon he discovers on his journey leads him to new experiences that ultimately transform his life. Dio C'e is a literary novel of ideas and a fascinating story that holds the reader's interest through plot suspense and character development. The impact of religious faith upon both the believer and the skeptic is explored with sensitivity and understanding in this moving work. In Let Us Be True the author describes the protagonist's eventual apostasy from Roman Catholicism. Dio C'e: A Singular Quest, on the other hand, considers the impact of religion on a man whose upbringing occluded any such practices entirely."
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Raised by secular parents, William Prince has no real connection to religion until he meets and falls in love with Christine O'Connell, a devout Catholic woman. To marry her, he agrees to be baptized into the Catholic Church, but Christine's strict adherence to dogma compromises their marriage. William's subsequent trip to Italy takes him on an odyssey to understand the meaning of beliefs he finds problematical. His quest to uncover the mystery behind a phenomenon he discovers on his journey leads him to new experiences that ultimately transform his life. Dio C'e is a literary novel of ideas and a fascinating story that holds the reader's interest through plot suspense and character development. The impact of religious faith upon both the believer and the skeptic is explored with sensitivity and understanding in this moving work. In Let Us Be True the author describes the protagonist's eventual apostasy from Roman Catholicism. Dio C'e: A Singular Quest, on the other hand, considers the impact of religion on a man whose upbringing occluded any such practices entirely.