Demon Copperhead

A Novel

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560 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 15. November 2022 von HarperCollins Publishers veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-0-06-325192-2
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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 …

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hat Demon Copperhead von Barbara Kingsolver besprochen

Heartfelt and Sad, worth the read

Demon Copperhead had me hoping for the best outcome for the main character Demon the whole story. This was a book with a lot of heartbreak but had a hopeful ending. Shines a light on the opioid epidemic and how it has taken over so many people’s lives. Good book. I want to read David Copperfield by Dickens now to see how these two compare. Great narrator! (listened through Libby)

hat Demon Copperhead von Barbara Kingsolver besprochen

Beautifully painful

I grabbed this without much consideration and got embarrassingly far through it before I got the Dickens heritage. If I read David Copperfield I've forgotten it, but if it explores real societal issues through the eyes of kids as well as this story does, it would be worth a comparison to get a sense of how the problems have evolved. It's not just problems though, they are lived by good characters.

hat Demon Copperhead von Barbara Kingsolver besprochen (Bloom)

Per tutti, in senso buono

Un romanzo di formazione con il lieto fine, per una volta lo dico senza intenti deteriori. Si rifà a David Copperfield, io non l'ho letto. E poi il razzismo contro i redneck e non è la difesa trumpiana che farebbe Rampini. Buoni sentimenti in ogni riga e una visione della "rinascita" dopo la dipendenza che non è esattamente quello che succede, per il resto, sì, la dipendenza è raccontata giusta. Non fa niente, non è un saggio sulle dipendenze e anche un lieto fine come te lo immagini dalla prima pagina non rovinano il libro. Cioè per tutti, tranne che per quelli che odiano i libri per tutti.

hat Demon Copperhead von Barbara Kingsolver besprochen

Painful and gorgeous

I started reading this on an international flight and immediately got completely absorbed into its universe -- our universe, filled with the forsaken and despised of impoverished rural Appalachia as the opioid crisis is generated around and through them, another industry (like coal mining before) grinding up an entire culture for private, corrupt gain. I got a bit bogged down in the middle as the pain became hard to stay with, but am really glad I pushed through. By turns hilarious and tragic, Kingsolver rewrites Dickens for the 21st century, reminding us that the social damage done by capitalism scars communities, families, and individuals in ways that we might not see but should not ignore.

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