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The 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 FOR FICTION A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape. 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. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe. 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

Language

en

Published on

01/01/2022

Pages

640

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781784877910

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