The Overstory
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The Overstory
- Author: Powers, Richard
About Book
- Publisher: Random House
- Published date: 2018-05-03
- Pages: 625
- ISBN: 9781784708245
- GoodReads Rating: 4.1
Condition & Size
- Size: Format B (Medium Format)
- Book Type: Paperback
- Condition: Excellent
Summary
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.
