A wondrous,exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape.
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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784877910Number of pages: 640Weight: 432 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 38 mm
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'A novel about the natural world - trees specifically - and our power as human beings to destroy it or redeem it. It reminds me that we are all connected and that there is still time to make things right.'- Tayari Jones,author of An American Marriage
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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