A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]Copyright date: �2020Edition: First editionDescription: 224 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1324005033
- 9781324005032
- Runaway children -- Fiction
- Parent and teenager -- Fiction
- Family vacations -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- Environmental disasters -- Fiction
- Apathy -- Fiction
- End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction
- Children's Bibles -- Fiction
- FIC
- PS3563.I42175 C48 2020
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | Flesherton Branch Shelves | FIC Mille (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 32241001130683 |
"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel -- her first since the National Book Award longlisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are imbedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as the children reject the parents for their emotional and moral failures-in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity and denial in the face of cataclysmic change. In A Children's Bible, Millet offers brilliant commentary on the environment and human weakness and a vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelations"--Provided by publisher.
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