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A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet. A Children's Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Author Lydia Millet. Title A Children's Bible.

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Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel--her first since the National Book Award-longlisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven --follows a group of eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their parents at a lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their elders, who pass their days in a hedonistic stupor, the children are driven out into a chaotic landscape after a great storm descends on the summer estate. The story's narrator, Eve, devotes herself to the safety of her beloved little brother as events around them begin to mimic scenes from his cherished picture Bible. Millet, praised as "unnervingly talented" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), has produced a heartbreaking story of the legacy of climate change denial. Her parable of the coming generational divide offers a lucid vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelation.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324005033
ISBN-13
9781324005032
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038823423

Product Key Features

Book Title
Children's Bibles : a Novel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Satire, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Lydia Millet
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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[A] blistering little classic...Millet's wit and her penchant for strange twists produce the kind of climate fiction we need: a novel that moves beyond the realm of reporting and editorial, a story that explores how alarming and baffling it feels to endure the destruction of one's world. Take this book, eat it up., This superb novel begins as a generational comedy...and turns steadily darker, as climate collapse and societal breakdown encroach. But Millet's light touch never falters; in this time of great upheaval, she implies, our foundational myths take on new meaning and hope., An American chaos story about a climate-changed future...A Children's Bible gains strength from its contradictions. It is hilarious yet tender; absurd yet chillingly realistic, nostalgic yet prescient., If you think it's hard to find original voices in contemporary fiction, you're not really reading properly--Millet is one such voice: comic, erudite, humane., Eco-fiction dystopias often make our climate future outright calamities of tidal waves and massive tree die-offs. Millet...knows what's coming is likely to be more subtle, and the slow-motion collapse she imagines in her latest novel is what makes it so harrowing., ""An American chaos story about a climate-changed future. ... A Children's Bible gains strength from its contradictions. It is hilarious yet tender; absurd yet chillingly realistic, nostalgic yet prescient.", To call it a generational allegory seems like an understatement. Millet is one of the most fascinating novelists working., As bewitching, unflinching, wry, and profoundly attuned to the state of the planet as ever, supremely gifted Millet tells a commanding and wrenching tale of cataclysmic change and what it will take to survive., Millet mordantly captures the complacency of older generations in the face of apocalypse, and the righteous anger, endurance, and practicality of the young., [A] blistering little classic. . . . Millet's wit and her penchant for strange twists produce the kind of climate fiction we need: a novel that moves beyond the realm of reporting and editorial, a story that explores how alarming and baffling it feels to endure the destruction of one's world. Take this book, eat it up.
Lccn
2019-050471
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.I42175c48
Copyright Date
2020

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While the writing is passable, the story is weird and improbable, and the characters have little depth. I read about the author in the New Yorker, and wanted to like this book, but it absolutely did not work for me. I finished it in the hope that somehow it would get better or make more sense, but it never did.
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