A children's bible : a novel
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Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
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Status
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLET 2020
1 available
FICTION MILLET 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLET 2020
1 available
FICTION MILLET 2020
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION MILLET 2020 | On Shelf |
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION MILLET 2020 | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Apathy -- Fiction.
Apocalyptic fiction.
Children's Bibles -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction.
Environmental disasters -- Fiction.
Family vacations -- Fiction.
Family vacations -- Fiction.
Parent and teenager -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction
Siblings -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction
Apocalyptic fiction.
Children's Bibles -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction.
Environmental disasters -- Fiction.
Family vacations -- Fiction.
Family vacations -- Fiction.
Parent and teenager -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction
Siblings -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction
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Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
Awards
Long-listed for Aspen Words Literary Prize 2021
Awards
Long-listed for National Book Award 2020
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Millet, L. (2020). A children's bible: a novel (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Millet, Lydia, 1968-. 2020. A Children's Bible: A Novel. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Millet, Lydia, 1968-. A Children's Bible: A Novel New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Millet, L. (2020). A children's bible: a novel. First edn. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Millet, Lydia. A Children's Bible: A Novel First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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