The Overstory: Shortlisted for the Man B
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018, a wondrous, exhilarating
novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural
catastrophe `The best novel ever written about trees, and really,
just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett 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. `Breathtaking'Barbara Kingsolver, New York
Times `It's a masterpiece' Tim Winton `It's not possible for Powers
to write an uninteresting book' Margaret Atwood `An astonishing
performance' Benjamin Markovits, Guardian
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