Damon's irrepressible, sassy voice is reminiscent of Holden Caulfield's ("I thought my life couldn't get any worse. Kingsolver spins terrific scenes of picking tobacco and hitchhiking into Tennessee. When a knee injury gets him hooked on pain pills, Damon's challenge is to resist the darkness that engulfed his mother and threatens his girlfriend, Dori.įans of Dickens will enjoy spotting one-to-one correlations-assistant coach Ryan "U-Haul" Pyles is creepy Uriah Heep, for instance-but there's no need to read David Copperfield beforehand. He joins the JV football team in high school and boards with Coach Winfield. "A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing," he remarks, looking back. Tragedy strikes and Damon moves between several foster homes before running away. He lives in a trailer home with his addict mother, who is employed at Walmart, and his new stepfather, Stoner, a mean trucker. Ten-year-old Damon Fields earned his nickname for his red hair, passed on (along with some impudence) from his father. Demon Copperhead, the bighearted ninth novel from Barbara Kingsolver ( Unsheltered Flight Behavior The Poisonwood Bible), follows the contours of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, transplanting the plot to 1990s southwest Virginia to uncover the perils of opiate addiction.
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