The Overstory
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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.In his twelfth
novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a
sweeping, impassioned novel 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, The Overstory 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, exploring the essential conflict on this
planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. 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.The Overstory is a
book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed
separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the
transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the
trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? ",Listen.
There's something you need to hear.",
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Richard Powers ,
W. W. Norton & Company
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W. W. Norton & Company
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