The Overstory

Richard Powers

The Overstory
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 April 2019
Pages
640
ISBN
9781784708245

The Overstory

Richard Powers

2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner

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.

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