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Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0063251922
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead Demon Copperhead (2022) follows a young boy through his tumultuous childhood and adolescence in contemporary Appalachia. Writer Barbara Kingsolver was inspired by David Copperfield, the classic 1850 novel by Charles Dickens, to explore similar themes of family, hardship, friendship, resilience, and the search for meaning and belonging. Young Demon Copperhead lives in a trailer with his mother, who struggles with substance abuse. He learns to navigate the challenges of foster care, child labor, addiction, toxic relationships, and grief, somehow managing to come of age against all odds.
Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Editura Trei
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786064021304
Demon Copperhead este povestea unui băiat adus pe lume de o mamă adolescentă, dependentă de droguri, un băiat fără alte atuuri în afară de frumusețea și părul arămiu moștenite de la tatăl decedat, spiritul caustic și un talent extraordinar de a supraviețui. El se vede obligat să înfrunte singur pericolele pe care le implică asistența maternală, exploatarea prin muncă, abandonul școlar, succesul sportiv, dependența, iubirile dezastruoase și pierderile devastatoare. Cu generații în urmă, Charles Dickens a scris David Copperfield pornind de la experiența lui de copil orfan de tată, supus unui regim de viață sever. Romanul de față este un omagiu adus lui Dickens și un protest față de o realitate care încă există. Cadrul victorian este substituit de Barbara Kingsolver cu o comunitate șocant de pauperă și cât se poate de reală din America zilelor noastre. Cu furie și compasiune, ea scrie o poveste răscolitor de frumoasă și creează unul dintre cele mai memorabile personaje din literatura contemporană, care te va cuceri cu siguranță. „Deopotrivă amuzant și dureros, romanul este povestea unui băiat imposibil de stăpânit, pe care nimeni nu-l vrea, dar pe care cititorii îl vor adora." – Washington Post „Barbara Kingsolver simte o plăcere aproape palpabilă de a scrie, creând imagini care nu-l mai părăsesc pe cititor." – New York Times Book Review „Barbara Kingsolver este o scriitoare care ne poate ajuta să înțelegem și să ne orientăm prin haosul acestor vremuri." – Minneapolis Star Tribune „După cum descoperă Demon, asumarea propriei povești – a fiecărei părți din ea – și găsirea unei modalități de a o spune reprezintă modul prin care poate să preia controlul asupra vieții. Și ce poveste! Intensă, pasională, sfâșietor de evocatoare, expusă de un narator care este produsul mai multor sisteme eșuate, într-adevăr, dar și al unui peisaj rural profund, cu propriile tradiții durabile." – The Guardian
Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061865930
“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from Northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, Kingsolver's distinctive voice— at times comic, but often heartrending—rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. Homeland and Other Stories creates a world of love and possibility that readers will want to take as their own.
Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571283279
**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD** TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR In this collection of essays, the author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us (out of one of history's darker moments) an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the author's small daughter. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too. In the voice Kingsolver's readers have come to rely on - sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive - Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8702404125
Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0063251981
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE * WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" * An Oprah's Book Club Selection * An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller * A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a voice for the ages--akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield--only even more resilient." --Beth Macy, author of Dopesick "May be the best novel of 2022. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love." (Ron Charles, Washington Post) From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the 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. 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. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
Author : Ian Tan
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781643364780
The most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver In Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, Ian Tan situates Kingsolver's oeuvre in an ecocritical and ecofeminist context and argues that her work puts forward an ethics of difference that informs a more egalitarian vision of the world. Following a brief biography, Tan explores ecocriticism as a literary strategy and analyzes Kingsolver's early nonfiction book, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, as an entry point to her thematic interests. Subsequent chapters attend to Kingsolver's nine novels, including her breakout The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Demon Copperhead, and the ways they engage with some of the most important issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including postcolonialism and climate change. This book shows how Kingsolver gives her readers the aesthetic tools to begin to see the familiar and the ordinary in a different light, allowing idealism to enrich our everyday lives.
Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571320110
From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century arts.' 'All the greats are covered in passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and Sidney Bechet ... Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz scene down to its commercial spine.' Kirkus Reviews
Author : Frank Kitson K.C.B. C.B.E. M.C.
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780571265671
Low Intensity Operations is an important, controversial and prophetic book that has had a major influence on the conduct of modern warfare. First published in 1971, it was the result of an academic year Frank Kitson spent at University College, Oxford, under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence, to write a paper on the way in which the army should be prepared to deal with future insurgency and peacekeeping operations. Its findings and propositions are as striking as when the work was first published. 'To understand the nature of revolutionary warfare, one cannot do better than read Low Intensity Operations... The author has had unrivalled experience of such operations in many parts of the world.' Daily Telegraph 'A highly practical analysis of subversion, insurgency and peacekeeping operations... Frank Kitson's book is not merely timely but important.' The Economist
Author : Denis Judd
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571300105
Rufus Isaacs was in his day the first commoner to rise to the rank of marquess since the Duke of Wellington. Born into a lively Jewish family, he left school aged 14, yet made his name as a brilliant QC before being elected to the Commons as a Liberal in 1904. Smeared during the Marconi scandal of 1913 he survived to be appointed Lord Chief Justice, and elevated to the peerage in 1914. He would go on to be Ambassador to the United States, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary. For this major work, first published in 1982, Denis Judd drew upon private papers in order to place Rufus Isaacs' complex career in perspective and so provide an overdue reassessment of one of the most outstanding public figures of the twentieth century. 'Excellent.' A.J.P. Taylor, Observer 'A lucid and revealing book' Geoffrey Moorhouse, Times 'The best biography [of Lord Reading] to have appeared so far.' Robert Blake, Evening Standard
Author : Caroline Burt,Richard Partington
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571312009
'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR 'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages matter.' - DAN JONES Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting - including civil war, deposition, the murder of kings and the ruthless execution of rebel lords - as well as international warfare, devastating national pandemic, economic crisis and the first major peasant uprising in English history. Arise, England uses the six Plantagenet kings who ruled during these two centuries to explore England's emergent statehood. Drawing on original accounts and arresting new research, it draws resonances between government, international relations, and the abilities, egos and ambitions of political actors, then and now. Colourful and complicated, and by turns impressive and hateful, the six kings stride through the story; but arguably the greatest character is the emerging English state itself.
Author : Richard Perceval Graves
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571309474
A. E. Housman, romantic poet and classical scholar, is best-known as the author of A Shropshire Lad and the meticulous editor of Manilius, the Latin poet of astronomy. In this first full biography, Richard Perceval Graves convincingly reconciles the two apparently conflicting sides of Housman's personality, and reassesses the reputation of a man who was something of a mystery even to his closest friends. 'This is bound to become the standard life.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Dispassionate and well-researched.' Philip Larkin, Guardian
Author : Anne Karpf
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571307845
Anne Karpf's parents survived the Nazi Holocaust. Her mother, a concert pianist when she was eighteen, was a survivor of Plaszow and Auschwitz concentrations camps. Her father survived several Russian labour camps. When they came to Britain in 1947, their pasts came with them. In this thought-provoking and moving memoir, Anne Karpf explores the profound impact of her parents' wartime experiences on her daily life. Combining a gripping account of her parents' survival, a sharp examination of the history of British attitudes to Jews and to the Holocaust, and turning an often wryly comic eye on the parent-child struggle, The War After is a fascinating and deeply touching story. When originally published in 1996 it was widely acclaimed: 'Painful and honest.' Observer 'Fascinating and revealing.' Literary Review 'Anne Karpf is a skilled storyteller, moving naturally between her own history and that of her parents in a way that neither intrudes nor distorts.' TLS 'A vibrantly live memoir about growing up in a Holocaust home ... At times brutally sad, The War After is also a rich and funny exploration of the struggle between a child and her parents.' Independent on Sunday
Author : Norman Del Mar
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309436
Norman Del Mar (1919-1994) was universally recognised as a leading authority on the music of Richard Strauss, and his masterly three-volume study of his life and works remains a classic. Volume I deals with the years from the composer's birth (1864) to Der Rosenkavalier (1912), discussing the early orchestral and chamber music, the tone poems and the operas Guntram, Feuersnot, Salome and Elektra. 'Deploying a well-nigh encyclopaedic knowledge, Mr Del Mar acquits himself brilliantly of his task of disentangling and reassembling the numerous strands that make up the backcloth of poetry and philosophy which Strauss, while not always understanding every intricacy, yet needed as a constant reference map for his composing. The three volumes of this magnificent book should be studied by all lovers of the late-romantic music, amateurs and professionals alike...a monumental achievement.' Times Literary Supplement 'A brilliant and copiously analytical study ... a constant fascination.' Guardian