DEMON COPPERHEAD
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.
'Legit about to get an 'I'd rather be reading Demon Copperhead' sticker for my Nissan Murano.' ROB DELANEY
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and is the first author to win the Women's Prize twice. Barbara lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
KINGSOLVER BARBARA
Barbara Kingsolver nació el 8 de abril de 1955 en Annapolis, Maryland, Estados Unidos, y creció en Kentucky. Estudió piano en la Universidad DePauw, pero cambió su enfoque a la biología, graduándose en 1977. Luego obtuvo una maestría en ecología y biología evolutiva en la Universidad de Arizona. Es novelista, ensayista y poeta, conocida por abordar temas como justicia social, medio ambiente y resiliencia humana. Su primera novela, "The Bean Trees" 1988 , fue seguida por obras como "Animal Dreams", "Pigs in Heaven", "The Poisonwood Bible", "Prodigal Summer", "The Lacuna", "Flight Behavior", "Unsheltered" y "Demon Copperhead", esta última ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 2023. También escribió ensayos como "Small Wonder" y el libro de no ficción "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle". Fundó el Bellwether Prize para promover la literatura de cambio social y ha sido galardonada con múltiples premios, incluyendo el National Humanities Medal y el Women's Prize for Fiction.
