Demon Copperhead
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af Demon Copperhead af Barbara Kingsolver
Winner of 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse - and his efforts to conquer them. Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter'. For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise. In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn't an abstraction, it's neighbours, parents, and friends. 'Family' could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For Demon, 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 in how far he's willing to travel to try and get there. Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.
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Forlag
Faber & Faber Fiction
Udgave
0
ISBN
9780571376483
Sprog
engelsk
Sider
560
Udgivelsesdato
04-05-2023
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3110773
EAN nr.
9780571376483
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
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