Read the full piece at the New York Times. His 2016 best seller, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was a bootstrapping memoir wrapped in a polemic Kingsolver found especially condescending. She is fiercely protective of its communities and irritated by the prejudice heaped on it. Our next Book Club pick is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Kingsolver is a child of the region, and a biologist with an intimate knowledge of and love for its unique ecosystem - its flora and its fauna, including the human kind. In a statement Tuesday, the release date for Demon Copperhead, Winfrey called Kingsolver’s 560-page novel the kind of epic you want to read this fall. 18, which reimagines the hero of “David Copperfield” as a young man in contemporary Southern Appalachia. NEW YORK Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, is Oprah Winfrey’s new book club choice. “I don’t usually talk to dead people,” she said.) The result of the conversation, her 17th novel in nearly three decades as a best-selling author, is “Demon Copperhead,” out on Oct. The answer came, she said, from a visitation by Charles Dickens. Her latest book began with the question of how to tell a story about the opioid epidemic that is ravaging Appalachia. Most of Barbara Kingsolver’s novels begin with a question, usually involving an injustice: how to tell a story about America’s exploitation of developing countries, for example, or the effects of climate change on rural communities.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |