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Title A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
Author Millet, Lydia, 1968- author.
Publisher New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Description 224 pages ; 22 cm
Edition First edition.
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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 HF-Adult Fiction  FICTION MIL Nearby on shelf  30632003958232 02-04-24  AVAILABLE
Note "Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize" --Cover.
"National book award finalist" --Cover.
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 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.
Subject Family vacations -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Environmental disasters -- Fiction.
Parent and teenager -- Fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Apathy -- Fiction.
End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction.
Genre Dystopian fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9781324005032
1324005033
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