Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2019
Shortlisted for theMan Booker Prize 2018
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.
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.
'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.'- Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784708245Number of pages: 640Weight: 461 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 33 mm
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'Autumn makes me think of leaves,which makes me think of trees,which makes me think of The Overstory, the best novel ever written about trees,and really,just one of the best novels,period.'- Ann Patchett
'An extraordinary novel...It's an astonishing performance ...'- Ben Markovits,The Guardian
'The time is ripe for a big novel that tells us as much about trees as Moby-Dick does about whales...The Overstory is that novel and it is very nearly a masterpiece...(An) exhilarating read.'- The Times
'One of the most thoughtful and involving novels I've read for years...This long book is astonishingly light on its feet,and its borrowings from real research are conducted with verve ...'- Tim Martin,The Daily Telegraph
'An immense and intense homage to the arboreal world,the book is alive with riveting data,cogent reasoning and urgent argument...(Pages) teem with knowledge and gleam with aesthetic appeal. Angry energy pulses through scenes...Valiant.'- Peter Kemp,The Sunday Times
'This is a mighty,at times even monolithic,work that combines the multi-narrative approach of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas with a paean to the grandeur and wonder of trees...(A) majestic redwood of a novel ...'- The Observer'His monumental novel The Overstory accomplishes what few living writers from either camp,art or science,could attempt...The Overstory is a delightfully choreographed,ultimately breathtaking hoodwink...a gigantic fable of genuine truths held together by a connective tissue of tender exchange between fictional friend,lovers,parents and children.'- Barbara Kingsolver,The New York Times Book Review
'Powers has to be admired for the sheer scale of this creation and the passion he has poured into it.'- David Sexton,Evening Standard"(A) rich literary canopy...Powers,one of a remarkable generation of polymathic American novelists...has produced a brilliant encyclopaedic (novel)...A rich entanglement of discourses,disciplines,data,characters and styles,mirroring the most biodiverse ecosystem.'- Times Literary Supplement
'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.'- Margaret Atwood
A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most'prodigiously talented novelists'- New York Times Book Review
'Formidably forks through time and place as it considers how best to care for our world.'-i paper
Richard Powers
Richard Powers is an award-winning American novelist,many of whose works explore themes connected to science and technology.
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