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Demon Copperhead : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is 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. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063252011
- Physical Description: 548 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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| General Note: | "Oprah's book club 2022"--Cover. |
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| Subject: | Teenage boys > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Opioid abuse > Fiction. Lee County (Virginia) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Altona Library | F Kin (Text) | 35864002849162 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | In transit | - |
| Arborg Branch | FIC KIN (Text) | 36430001394268 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bibliotheque St. Claude Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 36725000189175 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bibliothèque Ste-Anne Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 36127010026090 | English Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Big Lake Branch | KIN (Text) | 33923006545556 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-22 |
| Boissevain-Morton Library | F/Kingsolver (Text) | 36266000339650 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Campus Library | KINGSO DEMON (Text) | B001706316 | Paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | BOOK CLUB FKIN-CONTACT LIBRARY TO PLACE HOLD (Text) | DCL176188 | Calverley Collection | Not holdable | Available | - |
| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | BOOK CLUB FKIN-CONTACT LIBRARY TO PLACE HOLD (Text) | DCL176189 | Calverley Collection | Not holdable | Available | - |
| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | BOOK CLUB FKIN-CONTACT LIBRARY TO PLACE HOLD (Text) | DCL176186 | Calverley Collection | Not holdable | Available | - |
