Her protagonist, like Dickens’, is left to navigate a society where children are powerless, unseen and must fight for survival.ĭemon Copperfield may have been created 180 years after David Copperfield, but as Kingsolver spins her compelling and complex tale, the reader comes to realize that when it comes to poor people, especially children, not much has changed.
In Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver reimagines Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield and sets her story in modern-day Appalachia. She has authored some of the best books I’ve read over the past several years: The Poisonwood Bible Unsheltered Flight Behavior and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle to name a few.
Demon Copperhead gives voice to a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.It’s always thrilling when I hear that Barbara Kingsolver has written a new book. Inspired by the unflinching truth-telling of David Copperfield, Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. 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.
Demon befriends us on this, his journey through the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Flight Behaviour and The Poisonwood Bible comes this heart-rending instant classic.ĭemon Copperhead: 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.
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