Here the crisis is systemic, and it has a larger body count. He soon falls for Dori (aka Dora), who has her own bad habits, and together they become “storybook orphans on drugs.” In “Copperfield,” Dickens called out the immorality and manipulative streaks in English society through characters like Uriah Heep (transformed into an assistant football coach nicknamed U-Haul). Though he’s a talented artist and high school football player, a knee injury leads him to an oxycontin addiction. Where much of Dickens’ original is concerned with David’s rise as a writer, Demon spends much of the novel spiraling down. (Jip, the irritating lapdog of David’s first wife, Dora, remains an irritating lapdog named Jip.)īut “Demon Copperhead” is more interesting in the places where it doesn’t strictly map to its source material. On her way, she finds an abandoned baby girlwhom she names Turtleand brings her along to her new home in Tuscon. A punishing boarding school becomes a punishing tobacco farm, and so on. Kingsolver's debut novel follows a young woman named Taylor Greer who leaves her impoverished life in Kentucky to head west. The cash-strapped Micawber family becomes the McCobbs, constantly pursuing failed money-making schemes, from Amway to dog breeding. His charismatic but shallow friend Steerforth becomes a high school football star nicknamed Fast Forward. David’s cruel stepfather, Murdstone, becomes Murrell Stone, a violently abusive truck driver. Readers of Dickens’ 1850 novel will easily note Kingsolver’s various transpositions.
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