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The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.

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. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393356687
  • ISBN: 039335668X
  • Physical Description: 502 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Paperback / softback.
Formatted Contents Note:
Roots -- Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2019
Subject: Trees > Fiction.
Trees > Symbolic aspects > Fiction.
Forests and forestry > Northwestern States > Fiction.
Environmentalism > United States > Fiction.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Fiction.
Human-plant relationships > Fiction.
Environmental protection > Fiction.
Forest conservation > Fiction.
Northwestern States > Fiction.
Nature stories.
Genre: Ecofiction.
Epic fiction.

Available copies

  • 13 of 16 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Bedford County Library F POW (Text) 35010001429446 Adult Fiction Available -
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Boyertown Community Library POW (Text) 33249024127098 Fiction Available -
Brandywine Community Library POW (Text) 33249023408952 Fiction Checked Out 04/04/2024
Degenstein Community Library FIC POWERS PBK (Text) 35031301279410 Adult Fiction Checked Out 03/23/2024
Juniata County Library F POW (Text) 39640100651585 JUNM Fiction Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity FIC POW OVE 2019 (Text) 31001101845908 Adult Fiction Available -
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