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Demon Copperhead: 'Without a doubt the best book I'll read this year' Kate Atkinson

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Demon Copperhead: 'Without a doubt the best book I'll read this year' Kate Atkinson
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Barbara Kingsolver
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:560
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571376476
Audience
General
Edition Export - Airside ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 18 October 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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. 'Without a doubt the best book I'll read this year. And next year too, probably.' - Kate Atkinson

Author Biography

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten novels Unsheltered, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has both won and been shortlisted for The Women's Prize. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.