9780063251922-0063251922-Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

ISBN-13: 9780063251922
ISBN-10: 0063251922
Edition: First Edition
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Harper
Format: Hardcover 560 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780063251922
ISBN-10: 0063251922
Edition: First Edition
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Harper
Format: Hardcover 560 pages

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Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner (ISBN-13: 9780063251922 and ISBN-10: 0063251922), written by authors Barbara Kingsolver, was published by Harper in 2022. With an overall rating of 5.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $7.

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Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of October 2022: Kingsolver takes a literary classic and makes it her own, peering into the dark corners not of Dickensian England, but of present day in the neglected hollers of Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains. Damon Fields, nicknamed Demon Copperhead, came into the world already behind the eight ball of life, and before long he’s in foster care placements that resemble work camps more than loving homes. Throughout this coming-of-age novel, the rug is constantly pulled out from under him but Demon has reserves of Olympian endurance that somehow, like the man in the arena, enables him to get back up again and again. His knees get dusty—he faces hunger, cruelty, loss, and is swept up in the tidal wave of OxyContin that overtakes his tiny county—but he never loses his love for the place that claims him as its own. Kingsolver’s writing is arresting and illuminating; in baring Demon’s soul on the page she gives voice and visibility to a place and its people where beauty and desperation live side by side. —Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor
An Instant New York Times bestseller
A #1 Washington Post Bestseller
A #1 Indie Bestseller
An Oprah’s Book Club Selection
"Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient. I’m crazy about this book, which parses the epidemic in a beautiful and intimate new way. I think it’s her best.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick
"Demon Copperhead may be the best novel of 2022...Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love…. Kingsolver's best demonstration yet of a novel’s ability to simultaneously entertain and move and plead for reform.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)
“An Appalachian David Copperfield...Demon Copperhead reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction.” —New York Times
From the author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity.
“Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.”
Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

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Oct 14, 2023

Excellent read. Real, relatable, memorable.

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Apr 23, 2023

Quite well written and evocative story-telling. Surprises in moments of both setback and resilient overcoming for characters. Great insights into part of my country's culture with which I am woefully out of touch despite having been born and raised in rural Kentucky. Welcomed me home to a truth I welcome knowing--now, how to respond!?!