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Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Dec 15, 2023 · Miss Barks: Demon’s social worker, who is overworked and underpaid. Mr. Crickson (“Creaky”): Demon’s first foster parent, a struggling tobacco farmer who uses foster children for labor. Tommy Waddell (“Waddles”): Demon’s friend in foster care, a genuinely good person. Sterling Ford (“Fast Forward”): Demon’s friend in foster ...
Oct 18, 2022 · 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.
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Nov 1, 2022 · Demon Copperhead — his first name a twist on “Damon,” his last name owed to the red hair he inherited from his father — has a lot of troubles. From the beginning, though, he takes ...
Dec 15, 2023 · Over the next few years of sober living, Demon finishes his novel. Meanwhile, Maggot and his mother have been released from prison and live together. Emmy also rehabilitated herself and lives in a halfway house, practicing a different form of art—dance. As the story of Demon Copperhead ends, Demon and Angus are driving together.
Demon Copperhead Summary. Damon Fields tells the story of his life from birth to adulthood. Damon was born in Lee County, which is located in the Appalachian region of Virginia. His nickname, Demon Copperhead, is a play on “Damon.”. Copperhead comes from his father’s nickname, and it’s also a reference to Demon’s red hair.
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Oct 16, 2022 · In “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver offers a close retelling of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield,” which is either a baffling choice or an ingenious maneuver from a novelist ...
