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Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult co...

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Main Author: Millet, Lydia, 1968- (Author)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language:English
Published: 2020.
Subjects:
Family vacations > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Survival > Fiction.
Conflict of generations > Fiction.
Environmental disasters > Fiction.
Parent and teenager > Fiction.
Runaway children > Fiction.
Apathy > Fiction.
End of the world > Biblical teaching > Fiction.
Children's Bibles > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in an unraveling world. 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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ISBN:9781324005049
Author Notes:Lydia Millet is the author of Omnivores and George Bush, Dark Prince of Love. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and New York City.

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