A children's bible : a novel
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Author
Published
New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Millet, L
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Millet, L
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Fiction Millet, L
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Fiction Millet, L
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Fiction Millet, L
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Published
New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"[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.
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LC Subjects
Apathy -- Fiction.
Children's Bibles -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction.
Environmental disasters -- Fiction.
Family vacations -- Fiction.
Parent and teenager -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Survival fiction.
Children's Bibles -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction.
Environmental disasters -- Fiction.
Family vacations -- Fiction.
Parent and teenager -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Survival fiction.