04256cam a2200745 i 4500 23036180 OSt 20231007122549.0 230327t20222022nyu e 000 1 eng d 2022441858 9780571376483 9780063251922 (hardcover) 0063251922 (hardcover) (OCoLC)on1346157341 NjBwBT eng OQX rda OQX OCO GO6 IMT RNL GL4 VP@ YU6 ILC INR CDX IBI IAD GYG DEERP UAB TXSCH OCLCF MTG YDX ETC NZMAP Y$5 SLPLM NJB UIU WC4 BDX MJ8 CNMTR FHP LMR OCLCQ AMH TMK DLC lccopycat n-us-va PS3561.I496 D46 2022 813.54 KIN/D Kingsolver, Barbara author. 9696 Demon Copperhead : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] ©2022 548 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Oprah's book club 2022"--Jacket The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this 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. 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. 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. Teenage boys Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. Opioid abuse Fiction. Poverty Appalachian Region Fiction. FICTION Coming of Age. bisacsh Mothers Death. fast (OCoLC)fst01026948 Opioid abuse. fast (OCoLC)fst01430929 Orphans. fast (OCoLC)fst01048433 Poverty. fast (OCoLC)fst01074093 Teenage boys. fast (OCoLC)fst01145373 Teenagers Fiction. sears Orphans Fiction. sears Opium Fiction. sears Lee County (Va.) Fiction. Appalachian Region Fiction. Appalachian Region. fast (OCoLC)fst01240092 Virginia Lee County. fast (OCoLC)fst01217522 Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. fast (OCoLC)fst01726536 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 Historical fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01726640 Novels. fast (OCoLC)fst01921742 Historical fiction. gsafd Bildungsromans. lcgft Historical fiction. lcgft Novels. lcgft 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 813.54 KIN/D 813.54 KIN/D 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MES MES ENG 2023-10-07 0 813.54 KIN/D 42807 2023-10-07 12:23:25 599.00 2023-10-07 BK GR18R3 42575 42575