The Resource A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet
A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet
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The item A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Forsyth County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Forsyth County Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 224 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324005032
- Label
- A children's bible : a novel
- Title
- A children's bible
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Lydia Millet
- Title variation
- childrens bible
- Subject
-
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Children's Bibles -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction
- trueEnvironmental degradation
- Environmental disasters -- Fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily vacations
- trueFloods
- trueNature
- Parent and teenager -- Fiction
- trueResorts
- Runaway children -- Fiction
- trueScience
- trueStorms
- trueSurvival (after environmental catastrophe)
- Survival -- Fiction
- trueTeenagers
- Family vacations -- Fiction
- trueAlienation (Social psychology)
- Apathy -- Fiction
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Award
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- New York Times Notable Book, 2020
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2020.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10882221
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Millet, Lydia
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3563.I42175
- LC item number
- C48 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Family vacations
- Brothers and sisters
- Survival
- Conflict of generations
- Environmental disasters
- Parent and teenager
- Runaway children
- Apathy
- End of the world
- Children's Bibles
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 224 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324005032
- Lccn
- 2019050471
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1120091502
- (OCoLC)on1120091502
- 656663
- Label
- A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 224 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324005032
- Lccn
- 2019050471
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1120091502
- (OCoLC)on1120091502
- 656663
Subject
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Children's Bibles -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction
- trueEnvironmental degradation
- Environmental disasters -- Fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily vacations
- trueFloods
- trueNature
- Parent and teenager -- Fiction
- trueResorts
- Runaway children -- Fiction
- trueScience
- trueStorms
- trueSurvival (after environmental catastrophe)
- Survival -- Fiction
- trueTeenagers
- Family vacations -- Fiction
- trueAlienation (Social psychology)
- Apathy -- Fiction
- trueBrothers and sisters
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