num_pages: 248
description: Meeting in 1929 on the brink of adolescence, four children who were raised in isolation by a widowed mother grow into young men and women whose lives are marked by incest, homosexuality, and celibacy.
language: English
title: The Book of Knowledge: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Book of Knowledge: A Novel
genres: Novels
ratings_count: 20
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc