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Barbara Kingsolver Delivers Modern Version Of Old Classic

First of all, Pulitzer Prize-winner Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel Demon Copperhead is not about a snake as the title would suggest. It’s a modern interpretation of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield retold about a drug-addicted teenage boy. His name is a riff on his first name, Damon, and his distinctive red hair. What shocked me most about this amazing book is how different this story is from…

[andrewmfriday]

Book Buffet: Reviews of the Latest I’ve Read

I admit it. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. But this past summer, I managed to read several novels that did not fall into those categories. I’m so proud of myself. Here are my thoughts ...

Book Buffet: Reviews of the Latest I’ve Read – Andrew M. Friday (andrewmfriday.com)

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"Demon Copperhead is that rare and special and unique specimen – an important book. Having a human face to massive issues helps to make them more real, more relatable. We can become numb to the facts and numbers and figures, to the endless catechism of bad news and atrocities." My review of @barbara.kingsolver's exquisite new masterpiece, Demon Copperhead (@harpercollins), which transplants Charlies Dickens' David Copperfield to modern-day Appalachia, is up now on Spectrum Culture. Click the Link In Bio to read the full review! . . . . . #BarbaraKingsolver #DemonCopperhead #Harper #HarperCollins #DavidCopperfield #CharlesDickens #book #books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #booksbooksbooks #booksarelife #booksaremagic #ilovebooks #readmorebooks #bookworm #bibliophile #literature #GreatBooks #classics #modernliterature #Appalachia #Appalachian #AppalachianGothic #SouthernGothic #JSimpson #SpectrumCulture #bookreview #bookreviewer  https://www.instagram.com/p/CogSAeELCWv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Summary of “Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Overview:Demon Copperhead is a book by the novelist, Barbara Kingsolver and it follows this tradition by reconceiving charles dickens books David Copperfield as modern-day America. Centering around an impoverished rural Appalachian setting, the story navigates into the life of a young boy named Damon aka “Demon Copperhead” while growing up in this land which is consumed with generational poverty, drug trade epidemic, and personal mortality.

Plot of Demon Copperhead: Born in a trailer to two white hippie parents living as renegades on the Appalachian mountains, Demon grows up under the shadow of his mother’s dark secret that he is black. Adversity dogged his heels  Read more...

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[martafarasha]

Demon Copperhead di Barbara Kingsolver. La discesa all'inferno del giovane Demon, nato da una madre alcolizzata e drogata e passato da un affido all'altro. La sua ancora di salvezza sono i fumetti. Non c'è redenzione per gli abitanti di Lee county, che vivono di espedienti e si strafanno di oxy e altre droghe. Ogni volta che per Demon le cose sembrano mettersi bene, il destino e le circostanze si piazzano di traverso, fino ad un finale inaspettato. Il libro, che ha vinto il Pulitzer l'anno scorso, ricalca in più punti David Copperfield di Charles Dickens, utilizzandolo come canovaccio per una storia dolorosa ed originale. 600 pagine sono volate!

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Alfalfa’s out here at the lake looking for copperheads, but not just any - Demon Copperhead, to be exact. The character at the center of @Barbara.Kingsolver’s latest novel that we reviewed for @bullybookclub! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I preface my review by saying that Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors and everything she writes is five-star quality, this novel was no different. It’s right up there with Poisonwood Bible in my mind. I always get so attached to her characters I never want the book to end! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In #DemonCopperhead, Kingsolver transports Dickens’ “David Copperfield” into the mountains of southern Appalachian, Lee County, VA, a county in my own state I hadn’t heard of before reading this but now feels like a place I could go on about for hours. I’m grateful to her for giving me a different perspective on my home state. Lee County makes provides the backdrop for a profoundly deep and sad and raw and inspiring story about generations of childhoods lost to the opioid epidemic, broken foster care systems, child labor and institutional poverty. Kingsolver treads these waters with empathy, compassion and anger that translates into her protagonist, Demon, who also may be the funniest first-person narrator I’ve met. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So well done, Barbara. I think David Copperfield and Mark Twain would nod their heads in approval. In her words: “A good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes back on it.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #bullybookclub @harperbooks @harpercollins https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnn7lKLtGr9oPHY2YlnNW5UV3va0dq00IiBQ6o0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hello everyone, happy Friday to you all! I’m off work now until Wednesday so that’s the perfect excuse to hopefully get a lot of reading done. Here’s three new beautiful hardbacks I’ve added to my TBR. I’ve only read one Kate Atkinson book before (currently re-reading Life After Life) but am determined to catch up on all her books. This is her latest release and I’m planning to buddy read it with @emmasbookishcorner at some point! Set in the Roaring Twenties in London in a country still recovering from the Great War, London is the focus for a delirious nightlife. In Soho clubs, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. Nellie Coker is a ruthless ruler, ambitious for her six children. But success breeds enemies. Beneath the gaiety lies a dark underbelly, where one may be all too easily lost. Confession time - the middle book was a total cover/title buy. I #kellvery little about it before I decided I had to have it. Luckily the synopsis was just as good as I had hoped. In an alternate world, We learn about a Mass Dragoning in 1955 where 300,000 women spontaneously transform into dragons…and change the world. Finally, I was eager to get my hands on Demon Copperhead as soon as I heard it was being released. It has been described as a once in a generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. A boy is born during a traumatic birth to his single mother in a single-wide trailer looking like “a little blue prizefighter.” Raised in poverty and growing up in the middle of the modern opioid crisis, Demon is born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is how far he’s willing to travel in order to get there. I’m also planning on buddy reading this with @emmasbookishcorner I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagramuk #scottishbookstagrammer #morebookslessproblems #shrinesofgaiety #kateatkinson #whenwomenweredragons #kellybarnhill #demoncopperhead #barbarakingsolver #booksicantwaittoread https://www.instagram.com/p/CmhLQgwrk1Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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