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The Overstory : Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

by Richard Powers
The Overstory : Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Thryft
The Overstory : Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Thryft

Trees and people intertwined in a masterpiece.

"The Overstory" is an epic novel that explores the intricate relationship between humans and nature, specifically trees. Each of the nine main characters is summoned by the trees in a unique way, leading them to a last-ditch effort to save the last remaining acres of virgin forest in the country. The novel is a beautifully woven tapestry of interlocking fables that span centuries and continents, creating a world that is both fantastical and incredibly real. If you're interested in the environment, history, or just love a good story, "The Overstory" is a must-read.

  • 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 : Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

by Richard Powers
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ISBN: 9781785151644
Authors: Richard Powers
Publisher: William Heinemann
Date of Publication: 2018-04-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.12
(rated by 156623 readers)

Description

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 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 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.
 

Trees and people intertwined in a masterpiece.

"The Overstory" is an epic novel that explores the intricate relationship between humans and nature, specifically trees. Each of the nine main characters is summoned by the trees in a unique way, leading them to a last-ditch effort to save the last remaining acres of virgin forest in the country. The novel is a beautifully woven tapestry of interlocking fables that span centuries and continents, creating a world that is both fantastical and incredibly real. If you're interested in the environment, history, or just love a good story, "The Overstory" is a must-read.

  • 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.