For most of the story, there’s not a single adult he can count on. He quickly becomes very cynical about what adults have to offer, because in his world they never come through. Demon is much more savvy and he’s already had such a rough life. “David is kind of wide-eyed, trying to see the best in people. It looks like there's an issue with JavaScript in your browser. And in some ways she’s departed from her model, particularly in the character of her hero. Author Barbara Kingsolver's 'Demon Copperhead' is a retelling of David Copperfield, set in 1990s Appalachia. You don’t have to have read David Copperfield in order to read Demon Copperhead, she insists. She worked through what she thought of as a translation, or a masterclass: at one stage she had a spreadsheet with notes for all 66 of the David Copperfield chapters and her own notes for what would happen in each of her corresponding chapters.ĭespite her admiration for the author who she calls her “genius friend”, she doesn’t want to talk too much about Dickens or his novel. 2 3 4 5 6 7 It was named one of the '10 Best Books of 2022' by The Washington Post 8 and The New York Times. 1 The novel borrows its narrative structure from the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield. Demon Copperhead is a nickname for the narrator, Damon. She’d always loved the humour in Dickens – at 12 she strong-armed her siblings into putting on a puppet show of A Christmas Carol – but this was a whole new level of discovery. Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver.
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