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The Overstory

by Richard Powers
The Overstory
The Overstory

Intertwined human/tree narratives; environmental epic.

"The Overstory" weaves individual stories into a tapestry as rich and complex as a forest ecosystem. It's perfect for readers who appreciate deep connections between human and natural worlds, offering a narrative that encourages us to look beyond our immediate surroundings and consider the larger impact of our actions. Powers’ lyrical prose and the novel's timely ecological message make it an absorbing read that stays with you long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2018)
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2019)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2019)
  • William Dean Howells Medal (2020)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2019)
  • Chautauqua Prize Nominee (2019)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Shortlist (2019)
  • Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Overstory

by Richard Powers
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ISBN: 9781784708245
Authors: Richard Powers
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Date of Publication: 2018-11-21
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, War
Goodreads rating: 4.11
(rated by 189137 readers)

Description

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.
 

Intertwined human/tree narratives; environmental epic.

"The Overstory" weaves individual stories into a tapestry as rich and complex as a forest ecosystem. It's perfect for readers who appreciate deep connections between human and natural worlds, offering a narrative that encourages us to look beyond our immediate surroundings and consider the larger impact of our actions. Powers’ lyrical prose and the novel's timely ecological message make it an absorbing read that stays with you long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2018)
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2019)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2019)
  • William Dean Howells Medal (2020)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2019)
  • Chautauqua Prize Nominee (2019)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Shortlist (2019)
  • Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.