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A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.

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"[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 embedded 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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1001 . ‡aMillet, Lydia, ‡d1968- ‡eauthor.
24512. ‡aA children's bible : ‡ba novel / ‡cLydia Millet.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
264 1. ‡aNew York, NY : ‡bW. W. Norton & Company, Inc., ‡c[2020]
300 . ‡a224 pages ; ‡c22 cm
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
520 . ‡a"[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 embedded 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"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
650 0. ‡aFamily vacations ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aBrothers and sisters ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aSurvival ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aConflict of generations ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aEnvironmental disasters ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aParent and teenager ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aRunaway children ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aApathy ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aEnd of the world ‡xBiblical teaching ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aChildren's Bibles ‡vFiction.
650 7. ‡aFICTION / Literary. ‡2bisacsh
650 7. ‡aFICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical. ‡2bisacsh
650 7. ‡aApathy. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst00811226
650 7. ‡aBrothers and sisters. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst00839671
650 7. ‡aChildren's Bibles. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01910917
650 7. ‡aConflict of generations. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst00874815
650 7. ‡aEnd of the world ‡xBiblical teaching. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst00909635
650 7. ‡aEnvironmental disasters. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01741651
650 7. ‡aFamily vacations. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01745893
650 7. ‡aParent and teenager. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01053345
650 7. ‡aRunaway children. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01101290
650 7. ‡aSurvival. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01761768
650 7. ‡aSiblings ‡vFiction. ‡2sears
650 7. ‡aSurvival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc ‡vFiction. ‡2sears
650 7. ‡aConflict of generations ‡vFiction. ‡2sears
650 7. ‡aParent-child relationship ‡vFiction. ‡2sears
650 7. ‡aRunaway children ‡vFiction. ‡2sears
650 7. ‡aEnd of the world ‡vFiction. ‡2sears
655 7. ‡aDomestic fiction. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01726589
655 7. ‡aFiction. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7. ‡aPsychological fiction. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01726481
655 7. ‡aDomestic fiction. ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aPsychological fiction. ‡2lcgft
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