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"--"[This novel] 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. · Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible is a believable climate fable The dystopian novel feels about 15 minutes away from becoming reality. by Amy Peterson J. · 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. Praise “ she shows it is even possible to coax pleasure and beauty from the uncomfortable work of highlighting unfortunate truths.”.
Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible: A Novel (New York: W.W. Norton, ), pp. Lydia Millet's thirteenth novel isn't a Bible, but it's chock full of Biblical references and allusions. The narrator is a teenager named Eve, who's a ringleader of a group of twelve disaffected kids. Finalist for the 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 'A blistering little classic.' —Ron Charles, Washington Post, A Children's Bible, A Novel. In A Children's Bible, Lydia Millet has given us a compellingly written, compact, slyly funny novel that warns of the catastrophic events that may very well overwhelm us. Unless. Read Full Review Rave Michelle Anne Schingler, Foreword Reviews.
Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible is a believable climate fable The dystopian novel feels about 15 minutes away from becoming reality. by Amy Peterson J. A Children's Bible is a small book with a big message. A group of children and teenagers are on holiday at a huge lake house with their parents, whom they judge harshly. The parents are avaricious, they drink and take drugs, are sexually promiscuous and indifferent to their children's welfare. "[This novel] 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.
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