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Demon Copperhead : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this 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. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063251922
- ISBN: 0063251922
- Physical Description: 548 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : 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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| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. |
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- 59 of 136 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 26 current holds with 136 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams PL Sys. - Decatur Branch | FIC KINGSOL DEM (Text) | 34207002490127 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Akron Carnegie PL - Akron | FIC KIN (Text) | 75253000066379 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/03/2024 |
| Alexandria-Monroe PL - Alexandria | F KIN (Text) | 37521531069450 | AMPL Adult Fiction | Checked out | 06/02/2024 |
| Attica PL - Attica | F KINGSLOVER, BARBARA (Text) | 74231000127736 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Barton Rees Pogue Mem. PL - Upland | F KINGSOLVER barbara Demon (Text) | 76277000043614 | Fiction* | Available | - |
| Batesville Mem. PL - Batesville | F KINGSOLVER B. (Text) | 34706001771171 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Bloomfield Main | FIC KIN (Text) | 36803001190284 | FICTION | Checked out | 05/19/2024 |
| Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Eastern Branch | FIC KIN (Text) | 36804000313109 | FICTION | On holds shelf | - |
| Boswell Grant Twp PL - Boswell | FIC KIN (Text) | 38144000430670 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Brazil PL - Brazil | KINGSOLVER (Text) | 38160000625028 | Second Floor, Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
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