Book
A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781324005032
- ISBN: 1324005033
- Physical Description: 224 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "[This novel] 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Awards Note: | National Book Award finalist. |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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Available copies
- 4 of 5 copies available at GRPL.
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| Yankee Clipper | Fiction Millet (Text) | 31307024610075 | Fiction | Checked out | 07/21/2025 |
