![]() Her literary production thus far has favoured massive, readable bestsellers about things like climate change, religious fundamentalism, racism and the importance of family. Barbara Kingsolver tries her best in her update of David Copperfield, a 600-page monster called Demon Copperhead. What’s difficult is to replicate Dickens’s big, soppy heart, and his ability to render complex quandaries in ripping stories that make you read a thousand pages like you’re binge-watching 10 episodes of the latest Netflix hit. These are the stylistic tricks that are easy to replicate, even for middling writers. Or they wanted to tackle a story about a social ill on a grand scale with a cast of ruffians, orphans, and prigs. ![]() ![]() Or maybe it means they gave their characters quirky names that reveal their true nature, a la Uriah Heap. When people go Dickensian, it usually means they’ve written an unruly 600 page book they couldn’t manage to edit down. ![]()
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