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001			on1120091502
003			OCoLC
005			20200520101238.0
008			191105t20202020nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019050471
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dFNN _dOCLCO _dLW1 _dNFG
020			_a9781324005032 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1324005033 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1120091502
042			_apcc
092			_aMillet, _bLydia
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMillet, Lydia, _d1968- _eauthor. _960165
245	1	2	_aA children's bible : _ba novel / _cLydia Millet.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2005
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a224 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aFamily vacations _vFiction. _9209086
650		0	_aBrothers and sisters _vFiction. _91029
650		0	_aSurvival _vFiction. _92804
650		0	_aConflict of generations _vFiction. _92530
650		0	_aEnvironmental disasters _vFiction. _9120877
650		0	_aParent and teenager _vFiction. _913804
650		0	_aRunaway children _vFiction. _994262
650		0	_aApathy _vFiction. _9255888
650		0	_aEnd of the world _xBiblical teaching _vFiction.
650		0	_aChildren's Bibles _vFiction.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c311447 _d311447