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Carregando... Demon Copperheadde Barbara Kingsolver
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This book didn’t wow me…perhaps because of all the buzz which sometimes leaves me disappointed with the actual book. Also we (my book club) had read David Copperfield this summer and I thoroughly enjoyed the reread. Loved Dickens humor and Kingsolver, rightly so, did not include that in her drama. Dickens is a better storyteller, Kingsolver the better writer for today’s audiences. I respect what she was doing by setting her story in western VA to look inside the opioid crisis. Since I’ve read a number of books on that topic, this plot did not reveal anything new to me, just reinforced the tragedy that took place in Appalachia and many other rural places in the country. I will remember this book and recommend it to others, just didn’t make my top read list this year. (  ) beebeereads | Oct 1, 2023 |  https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/demon-copperhead-by-barbara-kingsolver/ This is Barbara Kingsolver’s rewriting of David Copperfield to today’s Appalachia. Dickens’ whimsy is replaced by gritty reportage of the poverty trap that has hit West Virginia (and many other places); in particular the opioid crisis is depicted in a human and humane and also horrifying way, much more effectively than I have seen in any reportage. It’s totally engrossing but not a cheerful read. Recommended all the same. (  ) nwhyte | Oct 1, 2023 | I have loved all the Barbara Kingsolver novels I have read. Boy, this woman can write ! This novel she is a young, southern, caustic, angry, sarcastic boy who I rooted for from page one. Demon Copperhead is a super hero who draws superhero cartoons and tries saving the people he cares for from Maggot, Tommie, Emmy, Angus and a host of other memorable characters. He does this as he tries to navigate through a totally disfunctional foster care system that lets him down over and over again. We ache for him as a poor hungry and lonely child tries to go to school when he smells bad and can’t see straight for hunger. We watch him rise , (Yahoo!!!) then fall from school football fame and my heart aches for him as Dori pulls him into addiction as he tries to love her like he thinks he should. Loved, loved this novel. (  ) Smits | Sep 29, 2023 | A beautiful piece of writing that helped me understand the problem of drugs in Appalachia, and was a great story too, with an unlikely hero. The beginning of Damon's story is so cruel, so painful, I wanted to put it down. But I'm glad I persevered. Barbara Kingsolver was, at one time, one of my favorite writers. With this book, she is again. (  ) fromthecomfychair | Sep 29, 2023 | Not since my days as a literature major, when I was rewarded for deifying well-crafted sentences above any other merit, has a novel's writing style been on even footing with its storytelling, as far as keeping me hooked to the words goes. I couldn't put Demon Copperhead down until the last line. There were funny parts. Demon's musings on his best friend's plethora of cheerleading squad cousins is one example. I went back to enjoy quite a few of Demon's witty ponderings about his environment. But it never felt zany. This wasn't a novel that had me asking which MFA program the author had attended. There certainly also were hard parts in the story. Many have described them as heartbreaking, but that isn't the right word for my experience of Demon Copperhead. There was one extended scene midway through that made me physically queasy, even though no characters underwent physical harm. Demon's character is so relatable that I felt his anxiety on a level that fiction rarely reaches. Normally, that kind of stomach-churning discomfort would have me put a novel down, at least for a break. Not so with this one. Page-turning, stomach-churning goodness. ( ) iothemoon | Sep 27, 2023 |
 Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love. Damon is the only child of a teenage alcoholic — “an expert at rehab” — in southwest Virginia.... In a feat of literary alchemy, Kingsolver uses the fire of that boy’s spirit to illuminate — and singe — the darkest recesses of our country....From the moment Demon starts talking to us, his story is already a boulder rolling down the Appalachian Mountains, faster and faster, stopping for nothing. ...Kingsolver has effectively reignited the moral indignation of the great Victorian novelist to dramatize the horrors of child poverty in the late 20th century. In echoing Dickens, Barbara Kingsolver has written a social justice novel all her own, one only she could write, for our time and for the ages.Master storyteller Kingsolver has given the world a book that will have a ripple effect through the generations...Like all stories that stick with you, this one is both universal and decidedly personal. If you’ve lived near the Appalachians, you'll recognize these characters as well as their voice. They may even remind you of family members—those who’ve made it through, made it out, or made it back. If you haven’t, it will touch your heart anyway....That Kingsolver has shone a light on them as only she can, is a leap in understanding the hurting of a forgotten, often misunderstood and ridiculed people. Next time you see such a person, be kind, open your mind, and stop making fun of their accent. “Demon Copperhead” reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction... Of course Barbara Kingsolver would retell Dickens. He has always been her ancestor. Like Dickens, she is unblushingly political and works on a sprawling scale, animating her pages with the presence of seemingly every creeping thing that has ever crept upon the earth.....Kingsolver’s prose is often splendid....And so, caught between polemic and fairy tale, Kingsolver is stuck with an anticlimax. .  With its bold reversals of fate and flamboyant cast, this is storytelling on a grand scale – Dickensian, you might say, and Kingsolver does indeed describe Demon Copperhead as a contemporary adaptation of David Copperfield....And what a story it is: acute, impassioned, heartbreakingly evocative, told by a narrator who’s a product of multiple failed systems, yes, but also of a deep rural landscape with its own sustaining traditions. Foi inspirada porPrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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