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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 be ...
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 .
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.
The two novellas ("The Circus in the Attic" and "Prime Leaf") were placed by Warren at the beginning and the end respectively, bracketing the short fiction cycle. [5] "The Circus in the Attic" (Cosmopolitan, September 1947) " Blackberry Winter" (Cummington Press, 1946) [6] "When the Light Gets Green" (Southern Review, Spring 1936)
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The book comprises connected tales about the fictional "Great Porter Circus", which made its winter home in the "Lima, Indiana", which stood in for the author's home town of Peru, Indiana. [4] The author is the great-niece of Henry Hoffman, an elephant trainer of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus who was killed by an elephant in 1901.
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities is a book by James Thurber first published in 1931 by Harper and Brothers. [1] It collects a number of short humorous pieces, most of which had appeared in The New Yorker , [ 2 ] and an introduction by E. B. White .
In Flowers in the Attic Corrine tells Cathy that she was 12, and out bike riding when she got her first period, while in Garden Of Shadows Corrine is 14 and proudly shares the news with her mother. Garden of Shadows does not mention Olivia's ever-present diamond brooch, nor any close friends that make her gray dresses (Flowers in the Attic).