A children's bible : a novel /
Millet, Lydia, 1968-
A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet. - First edition. - 224 pages ; 22 cm
"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"--
9781324005032 1324005033
2019050471
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.
A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet. - First edition. - 224 pages ; 22 cm
"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"--
9781324005032 1324005033
2019050471
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.