A Children's Bible Contributor(s): Millet, Lydia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1324005033 ISBN-13: 9781324005032 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2020 Click to see jacket front/back text |
Additional Information |
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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