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Kingsolver, Barbara, 1955-

Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver. - London Faber 2023 - 548 pages ; 24 cm

Originally published in the USA by HarperCollins, 2022.

Demon 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

ISBN: 9780571376483

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC2D4856 bnb GBC348696 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020699789 Uk 020982796 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Single parents--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Opioid abuse--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Appalachian Mountains--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction

LC Class. No.: PS3561.I496 / D46 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 813.54