Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead
Basic Info
- Author: Barbara Kingsolver
- Year: 2022
- Type: #primary1
Summary (brief)
Damon's life; Trailer and Stepfather; Neighbor Peg is mother figure, Maggot (her grandson) is his pal; Mother marries Stoner, an abusive truck driver; Demon goes into the Foster System & is used by Mr. McCobb for cheap labor sorting garbage; Creaky the tobacco farmer forces Demon into field work; Damon draws his comic book superhero The Red Mud Hornet; Football Stardom and High Society: Demon runs away, finds his grandmother Betsy Woodall, who places Demon in custody of Coach Winfield; He becomes a star player; befriends sister Angus; Demon suffers knee injury; he gets OxyContin and develops a severe addiction; falls into toxic, co-dependent relationship with Dori, a beautiful but deeply damaged girl who is also an addict; Demon's idolized older friend, Fast Forward, dies in a reckless accident; Dori dies and he hits rock bottom; Angus and grandmother send Demon to rehab; he focuses on his art; him and Angus drive into the sunset
Major Themes
#interiority
#spatialconfinement
#confession
Key Passages / Quotes
Quote 1
quote:: “only the brain was aroused, without any link to the lower organs, which, if they existed at all, remained forever in a state of frozen virginity”
page:: 206
themes:: trans-corporeality
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Genre Notes
Neo-Vic structural homage; expansive, episodic structure of a 19th-century serialization, allow a massive cast of characters to drift in and out of the protagonist's life over a span of decades;
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