A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
2020
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Author
Millet, Lydia, 1968- author.
Title
A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
Description
1 online resource (224 pages)
Summary
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 embedded 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.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital cover (Lexis, viewed March 02, 2021)
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Fiction
Language
English
ISBN
9781324005049 (electronic book)
1324005041 (electronic book)
9781324005032 (hardcover)
1324005033 (hardcover)
1324005041 (electronic book)
9781324005032 (hardcover)
1324005033 (hardcover)
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