The Overstory

a novel

502 sivua, 502 pages

English language

Published Jan. 7, 2018 by W. W. Norton Company.

ISBN:
978-0-393-63552-2
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Finna ID:
helka.9931766253506253

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"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. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of -- and paean to -- the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the …

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Subjects

  • Nature.
  • Trees Fiction.
  • fiktio.
  • luonto.
  • puut (kasvit)
  • fiktion.
  • naturen.
  • träd.

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