03749cam a2200313 4500 608273706 TxAuBib 20221029120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063251991 006325199X B09QMHZ53K Amazon dc2c2bb8-ef2a-4015-8c1c-f0e7573fed75 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8723752 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kingsolver, Barbara. Demon Copperhead: a Novel [Libby]. HarperCollins, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1398kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><strong>An Oprah's Book Club Selection</strong></p> <p><strong>"Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient. I'm crazy about this book, which parses the epidemic in a beautiful and intimate new way. I think it's her best." —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick</strong></p> <p><strong>"An Appalachian David Copperfield...Demon Copperhead reimagines Dickens's story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction...Like Dickens, she is unblushingly political and works on a sprawling scale...Episode by episode she persuasively conveys the mind of a teenage boy...It's hard to think of another living novelist who could take a stab at Dickens and rise above the level of catastrophe."</strong> <strong>—New York Times</strong></p> <p><strong>From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.</strong></p> <p>"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."</p> <p>Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's 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.</p> <p>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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-28 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dc2c2bb8-ef2a-4015-8c1c-f0e7573fed75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dc2c2bb8-ef2a-4015-8c1c-f0e7573fed75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dc2c2bb8-ef2a-4015-8c1c-f0e7573fed75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)