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$4.99
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1 mg
Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. A masterful recasting of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss, and redemption set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s a story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
