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The Overstory

By Richard Powers

The Overstory Contemporary literature

The Overstory

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** 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
625
Release Date:
2022-07-07
Publication Date:
2022-07-07
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1784877913
ISBN13:
9781784877910
Weight:
433 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
194 cm
Thickness:
43 cm
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