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Demon Copperhead
| Title | Demon Copperhead |
| Names | Kingsolver, Barbara. |
| Book Number | DB110786 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | "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. 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." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. |
| Narrator | Thurston, Charlie. |
| Local Subject | General Fiction - GFI |
| Staff Picks - STAFF | |
| Family Story (Single Generation) - FST | |
| Growing Up Story (Fiction) - GUP | |
| Commercial Audio - COMAU | |
| Southern Fiction - SOF | |
| Bestseller - Fiction - BEF | |
| Audience Notes | Male narrator - MN |
| Unrated - Commercial Audio - UR |
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| Bestseller - BES |
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| LC Subject | Mothers - Death - Fiction |
| Opioid abuse - United States - Fiction |
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| Orphans - Fiction |
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| Poverty - Appalachian Region - Fiction |
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| Teenage boys - Appalachian Region - Fiction |
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| Appalachian Region - Rural conditions - Fiction |
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| Lee County (Va.) - Fiction |
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| Fiction |
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| Bildungsromans |
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| Language | English |
| Released | 2022 |