Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.
"Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden
Caulfield—only even more resilient. I’m crazy about this book,
which parses the epidemic in a beautiful and intimate new way. I
think it’s her best.” — Beth Macy, author of Dopesick
“Brilliant. . . . A page turner and Kingsolver’s best novel by far.
. . . Kingsolver has some of Mark Twain in her, along with
21st-century gifts of her own. More than ever, she is our literary
mirror and window. May this novel be widely read and championed.” —
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"May be the best novel of 2022...Equal parts hilarious and
heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody
wants, but readers will love….You may be reminded of another
orphaned boy slipping through the country’s underbrush, just trying
to stay out of trouble: Huck Finn. With Demon, Kingsolver has
created an outcast equally reminiscent of Twain’s masterpiece,
speaking in the natural poetry of the American
vernacular….Kingsolver's best demonstration yet of a novel’s
ability to simultaneously entertain and move and plead for
reform."
— Ron Charles, Washington Post
“If you’re familiar with the Charles Dickens classic, you’ll
follow the story’s beats and chuckle….What keeps you turning the
pages is the knowledge that Demon has a future. The novel ends on a
note of hope...not every fate is decided by the circumstances of
one’s birth.” — Associated Press
"There’s really nothing like being immersed in a Kingsolver novel.
. . . Damon [is Kingsolver’s] bravest, most ambitious creation
yet." — Los Angeles Times
“Kingsolver’s capacious, ingenious, wrenching, and funny survivor’s
tale is a virtuoso present-day variation on Charles Dickens’ David
Copperfield. . . . Kingsolver’s tour de force is a serpentine,
hard-striking tale of profound dimension and resonance.” — Booklist
(Starred Review)
“An epic…brimming with vitality and outrage….the rare 560-page book
you wish would never end.”
— People "Book of the Week"
“With its bold reversals of fate and flamboyant cast, this is
storytelling on a grand scale. . . . As Demon discovers, owning his
story—every part of it—and finding a way to tell it is how he’ll
wrest some control over his life. And what a story it is: acute,
impassioned, heartbreakingly evocative, told by a narrator who’s a
product of multiple failed systems, yes, but also of a deep rural
landscape with its own sustaining traditions.” — The
Guardian
“Extraordinary. . . . Much like Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain or
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, Kingsolver’s epic is narrated
by a self-professed screwup with a heart of gold . . . chock-full
of cinematic twists and turns. It’s a book that demands we start
paying attention to—and embracing—a long-ignored community and its
people." — San Francisco Chronicle
"Kingsolver's new novel is her best in years. . . . The character
of Damon is right up there with the best classic orphans of
literatre. Believe me: you will root for this lost boy." —
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“In Demon Copperhead…Kingsolver channels the voice of a
disenfranchised boy lost in the failures of our social system. It's
a testament to her storytelling mastery that this novel also
illustrates how deeply intertwined our attitudes about nature are
with our collective destiny. As always, her purpose is to make us
think about the ways we all must look out for each other.” —
Arizona Republic
“Absorbing….Readers see the yearning for love and wells of
compassion hidden beneath Demon’s self-protective exterior….
Emotionally engaging is Demon’s fierce attachment to his home
ground, a place where he is known and supported, tested to the
breaking point as the opiate epidemic engulfs it…. An angry,
powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too
often stereotyped or ignored.” — Kirkus Review (Starred Review)
“A deeply evocative story…Kingsolver’s account of the opioid
epidemic and its impact on the social fabric of Appalachia is drawn
to heartbreaking effect. This is a powerful story, both brilliant
in its many social messages regarding foster care, child hunger,
and rural struggles, and breathless in its delivery.” — Publishers
Weekly (Starred Review)
“Kingsolver brings a notably different energy from her previous
work to Demon Copperhead…through a tremendous narrative voice,
one so sharp and fresh as to overwhelm the reader’s senses….Demon’s
spirit comes through, and it is haunting. It’s the reason the pages
keep turning….Kingsolver has made this story her own, and what a
joy it is to slip into this world and inhabit it, even with all its
challenges.” — BookPage
“Demon Copperhead is a propulsive reading experience, energetic and
funny while still conveying Kingsolver’s fury at the institutions
that have let her community down.” — Slate
“You’ll be enthralled by [Demon’s] voice, simultaneously hilarious
and wise, as he illuminates life in rural America…..this is the
ideal late-fall read to sink your teeth into.”
— Real Simple
“A dazzling novel….a lyrical re-dreaming of Dickens’s David
Copperfield. The social injustices of Victorian England have been
transplanted, with spellbinding success, to modern-day
Appalachia…populated by America’s rural white underclass and now
ravaged by the opioid crisis…Kingsolver maintains an astonishing
level of energy and intensity….This novel is surely a highpoint of
Kingsolver’s long career and a strong early candidate for next
year's Booker Prize.” — Times Literary Supplement
“A riveting, epic tale…[Kingsolver’s] exquisite writing takes a
wrenching story and makes it worthwhile… Kingsolver has given us a
superb novel.” — Christian Science Monitor
"A heartrending, probing and ultimately hopeful tale about a young
boy’s journey from devastation to survival….It’s hard to ascertain
which is more brilliant, Kingsolver’s skill in modernizing Dickens’
narrative or the voice she gives to the privations and adversities
facing the land and people she so dearly loves.” — Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
"This is storytelling at its best. The voice rings true and so do
the incidents." — Stephen King
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
