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Title :
A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
Title:
A children's bible :
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
224 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781324005032

9780393867381
Production / Publication Information:
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Summary:
"[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 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"--
Language:
English
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