| Record Number |
839538 |
| ISBN |
9781324005032 (hardcover) |
| Author |
Millet, Lydia, 1968- author. |
| Title |
A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020] |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
224 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary Note |
"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- 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"-- |
| 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 |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Psychological fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F MILL |
