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The Overstory
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Moving through America's history and its landscape, this is a wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.
The Overstory is the million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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'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
This is a story where 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's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book' — Margaret Atwood
'Radical and exciting' — Jessie Burton
'Breathtaking' — Barbara Kingsolver
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The Overstory by Richard Powers has been praised for its profound exploration of the relationship between humans and trees, offering a narrative that sees the natural world with fresh eyes. Critics have highlighted its intricate storytelling and the way it combines compelling human stories with an urgent environmental message. The novel is described as both educational and transformative, leaving readers with an altered perception of nature and hope for the planet's future.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781784708245
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 April 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 33.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 461g
Pages: 640
About the Author
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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