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A Children's Bible
Contributor(s): Millet, Lydia (Author)

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ISBN: 1324005033     ISBN-13: 9781324005032
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Disaster
- Fiction | Family Life - Siblings
Dewey: 813.54
LCCN: 2019050471
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.1" L (0.80 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2019 pg. 56
 
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Publisher Description:

Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel--her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven--follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.

Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, the group's ringleaders--including Eve, who narrates the story--decide to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.

As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.

A Children's Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide--and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.


Contributor Bio(s): Millet, Lydia: - Lydia Millet has written twelve works of fiction, which have won PEN-USA and Academy of Arts and Letters fiction prizes and been New York Times Notables and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists, among other honors. She lives in Arizona.
 
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