The Overstory

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Charlotte says about The Overstory: "An incredible and intricate novel that intertwines the lives of nine different people with the majesty, sentience and benevolence of trees! Pow ers' prose is poetic, honest and simply beautiful." THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. 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. Author: Powers, Richard Science fiction Published on 29 August 2024 by Cornerstone (Penguin (Cornerstone)) in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 640 pages131 x 198 x 43 | 446g Show more