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The Overstory

A Novel
By Richard Powers
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The Overstory is a powerful and expansive novel by Richard Powers that intertwines interlocking stories spanning from antebellum New York to the Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest. It celebrates the intricate and often unseen world of trees and nature, exploring how a group of individuals come to recognise and respond to the environmental crisis surrounding them.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in environmental issues, literary fiction, and narratives that blend activism with rich storytelling.

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The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world.

From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel 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.

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393356687

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 April 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 555g

Pages: 512

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About the Author

Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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