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Overstory

byRichard Powers

Who is this book for? Readers interested in environmental issues, literary fiction, and character-driven narratives.

Topics TreesForest conservationEnvironmental activismHuman-plant relationshipsInterconnectedness of natureDeforestationEnvironmental protectionCommunication in natureThe power of natureConservation effortsEnvironmental IssuesActivismHuman Nature
MoodReflective, Hopeful
RomanceMinor Subplot
ViolenceMild
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers - each summoned in different ways by trees - are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' - Margaret Atwood

Language

en

Published on

04/11/2019

Pages

640

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781784708245

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