Title: A children's bible
Subtitle: a novel
Description: "[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, 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 embedded 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"--
Subjects: American literature, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Fiction, satire, New York Times reviewed, Family vacations, Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Survival, Conflict of generations, Environmental disasters, Parent and teenager, Runaway children, Apathy, End of the world, Biblical teaching, Children's Bibles, Vacances familiales, Romans, nouvelles, Frères et sœurs, Habiletés de survie, Conflit de générations, Catastrophes écologiques, Parents et adolescents, Enfants fugueurs, Apathie, Fin du monde, Enseignement biblique, Bibles pour enfants, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Siblings, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Parent-child relationship