The overstory : a novel /
Powers, Richard, 1957-
The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers. - First edition. - 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Roots -- Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds.
"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 to 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."--
Text in English.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist, 2019. NPR Best Books, 2018. Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2019.
9780393635522 039363552X 9780393356687 039335668X 9781785151637 1785151630
40028107117
W W Norton & Co Inc, Keystone Industrial Park Attn Mike Charnogursky 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 SAN 202-5795
2017051173
Trees--Fiction.
Nature stories.
Trees--Fiction.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
FICTION--Literary.
Nature stories.
Trees.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
Nature stories.
Novels.
Nature stories.
Nature fiction.
Fiction.
Nature fiction.
Nature fiction.
Novels.
General.
PS3566.O92 / O94 2018
813/.54
The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers. - First edition. - 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Roots -- Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds.
"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 to 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."--
Text in English.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist, 2019. NPR Best Books, 2018. Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2019.
9780393635522 039363552X 9780393356687 039335668X 9781785151637 1785151630
40028107117
W W Norton & Co Inc, Keystone Industrial Park Attn Mike Charnogursky 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 SAN 202-5795
2017051173
Trees--Fiction.
Nature stories.
Trees--Fiction.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
FICTION--Literary.
Nature stories.
Trees.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
Nature stories.
Novels.
Nature stories.
Nature fiction.
Fiction.
Nature fiction.
Nature fiction.
Novels.
General.
PS3566.O92 / O94 2018
813/.54