Demon Copperhead

Demon Copperhead
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"Kingsolver is a writer who can help us understand and navigate the chaos of these times." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."

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.


Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in Africa in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in Biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her most famous works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary ...

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  • 纳里
    11-29
    脱胎于David Copperfield,语言平实,通篇第一人称视角,觉得作者可以写两部,写到男主去世会更有意思。
  • 值得表扬
    02-17
    从Hillbilly Elegy第一次遭遇阿帕拉契山脉里的“红脖子” Barbara Kingsolver让我认识了其中一个 Demon Copperhead 充满人性罪性和韧性的故事 殊不知那片梦想中的大海 亦是危机四伏 城里人 乡下人 各有各的不幸 皆是hustle 都是奔波
  • ZZ
    06-06
    讀過好幾本white trash的書,也有非虛構文學講到Oxy給整個鎮子,甚至全州帶來的災難性的打擊。所以這本書裏的描寫並不陌生,但是以第一人稱來講述親身經歷,還是讓人很容易有代入感。
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