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Plot. Damon Fields is born to a single teenage mother in a trailer home in Lee County, located in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. He has red hair, inherited from his dead father, who was a Melungeon. He is nicknamed "Demon Copperhead" for the colour of his hair and his attitude. (Copperhead referring to the colour as well as snake species).
PS3561.I496 P65 1998. The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River. The novel's title refers to Bible errata. The father of the family creates his own ...
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer ...
This quote appears at the beginning of Demon Copperhead for a reason. In reimagining this classic tale, Kingsolver brings the present into stark relief, demonstrating that societies, whether in ...
Oprah sat down for a conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, whose epic novel Demon Copperhead is the latest OBC selection—the 98th in the 26-year history of Oprah’s Book Club.. The video will ...
Trust (novel) Trust. (novel) Trust is a 2022 novel written by Hernan Diaz. [2][3][4][5][6] The novel was published by Riverhead Books. Set predominantly in New York City and focusing on the world of finance, the novel is a metafictional look at a secretive financier and his wife.
A Melungeon character is the titular protagonist and narrator of Barbara Kingsolver 's Demon Copperhead, which was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel takes place primarily in Lee County, Virginia and environs.
444. ISBN. 0-06-095903-7. OCLC. 48165563. Prodigal Summer (2000) is the fifth novel by American author Barbara Kingsolver. Heavily emphasizing ecological themes and her trademark interweaving plots, this novel tells three stories of love, loss and connections in rural Virginia.