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008			191105s2020 nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9781324005032
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050		4	_aPS3563 .I42175 _bC48 2020
100	1		_aMillet, Lydia, _d1968-
245	1	2	_aA children's bible : _ba novel / _cLydia Millet.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c[2020]
300			_a224 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
505	0		_aThis book was bought with money from the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund established in 2017 with the Canton Community Foundation by Appreciative Readers, june 2020.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aParent and teenager _vFiction.
650		0	_aFamily vacations _vFiction.
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