| Titre : | Demon Copperhead EWP | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-....), Auteur | | Editeur : | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Faber and Faber | | Année de publication : | 2022 | | Collection : | 231 Poche | | Importance : | 1 vol. (548 p.) | | Format : | 24 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-571-37646-9 | | Prix : | 14.99 £ | | Note générale : | Barbara Kingsolver, l'autrice de L'Arbre aux haricots et des Yeux dans les arbres signe là un de ses romans les plus forts, couronné par le prestigieux prix Pulitzer et le Women's prize for fiction. | | Langues : | Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) | | Mots-clés : | Roman américain, Fiction | | Résumé : | Demon Copperhead: 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. Demon befriends us on this, his journey through 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. Inspired by the unflinching truth-telling of David Copperfield, Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead gives voice to a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind
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Demon Copperhead EWP [texte imprimé] / Barbara Kingsolver (1955-....), Auteur . - Faber and Faber, 2022 . - 1 vol. (548 p.) ; 24 cm. - ( 231 Poche) . ISBN : 978-0-571-37646-9 : 14.99 £ Barbara Kingsolver, l'autrice de L'Arbre aux haricots et des Yeux dans les arbres signe là un de ses romans les plus forts, couronné par le prestigieux prix Pulitzer et le Women's prize for fiction. Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng) | Mots-clés : | Roman américain, Fiction | | Résumé : | Demon Copperhead: 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. Demon befriends us on this, his journey through 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. Inspired by the unflinching truth-telling of David Copperfield, Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead gives voice to a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind
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