Demon Copperhead

Demon Copperhead
AuthorBarbara Kingsolver
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarper
Publication date
October 18, 2022
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages560
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Fiction
Women's Prize for Fiction
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
ISBN978-0-06-325192-2

Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.[1][2] While Kingsolver's novel is similarly about a boy who experiences poverty, Demon Copperhead is set in Appalachia and explores contemporary issues.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Sullivan, Jane (October 21, 2022). "'He said things to me': Barbara Kingsolver's spine-chilling chat with Dickens". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  2. ^ "Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver — a dose of Dickens". Financial Times. October 26, 2022. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  3. ^ Demon Copperhead. Kirkus. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  4. ^ Young, Molly (October 16, 2022). "In Barbara Kingsolver's New Novel, an Appalachian David Copperfield". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  5. ^ Berry, Lorraine (October 13, 2022). "Mountains of the damned". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved November 17, 2022.

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