A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.
"[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.
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]
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Genre: | Survival fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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- 13 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
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- 1 current hold with 13 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | F MIL 2020 (Text) | 0002205648575 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |