The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.

By:

Powers, Richard, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780393635522
039363552X
9780393356687
039335668X
9781785151637
1785151630

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

813/.54 23

LOC classification:

PS3566.O92 O94 2018

Contents:

Roots -- Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds.

Awards:

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.

Summary: "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."-- From dust jacket.

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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."-- From dust jacket.

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.

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