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005			20231009192528.0
008			200109s20202020nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781324005032(hardcover)
050	0	0	_aPS3563.I42175 _bC48 2020
082	0		_aFIC MIL _2
100	1		_aMillet, Lydia, 1968-
245	1	2	_aA children's bible : _ba novel _c/ Lydia Millet.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: W. W. Norton and Company _c, c2020
300			_a224 pages _c; 22 cm
500			_aFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
520			_aAn 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.
546			_aEnglish
650	1	4	_aFamily vacations _x-Fiction
650	1	4	_aBrothers and sisters _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aSurvival _x-Fiction
650	1	4	_aConflict of generations _x-Fiction
650	1	4	_aEnvironmental disasters _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aParent and teenager _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aRunaway children _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aEnd of the world _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aChildren's Bibles _x-Fiction
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