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 San Francisco Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
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 San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
- 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
- Subject
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- Children's Bibles -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction
- Environmental disasters -- Fiction
- Apathy -- Fiction
- Parent and teenager -- Fiction
- Runaway children -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Family vacations -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- 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/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
- Label
- A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet
- Bar code
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- 31223133426206
- 31223133426214
- 31223133426297
- 31223133426289
- 31223133426230
- 31223133426222
- 31223133426271
- 31223133426263
- 31223133426255
- 31223133426248
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- bro-upg20200513-091
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120091502
- Label
- A children's bible : a novel, Lydia Millet
- Bar code
-
- 31223133426206
- 31223133426214
- 31223133426297
- 31223133426289
- 31223133426230
- 31223133426222
- 31223133426271
- 31223133426263
- 31223133426255
- 31223133426248
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- bro-upg20200513-091
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120091502
Subject
- Children's Bibles -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction
- Environmental disasters -- Fiction
- Apathy -- Fiction
- Parent and teenager -- Fiction
- Runaway children -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Family vacations -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
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