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Title A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
Author Millet, Lydia, 1968- author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
©2020
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Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  FIC MIL    Check Shelves
 North Orange  FIC MIL    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC MIL    Check Shelves
 Southeast  FIC MIL    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 224 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note LEASE 2020-06
Subject Family vacations -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- 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.
Children's Bibles -- Fiction.
Genre Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
ISBN 9781324005032 (hardcover) : $25.95
1324005033 (hardcover)
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