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. Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including The Overstory and Orfeo, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. RICHARD POWERS is the bestselling author of Bewilderment, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. The Overstory Author : Richard Powers Publisher : Random House ISBN 13 : 1473554497 Total Pages : 640 pages Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download) DOWNLOAD NOW Book Synopsis The Overstory by : Richard Powers Download or read book The Overstory written by Richard Powers and published by Random House. The perfect literary escape.Īn artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His most recent, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann PatchettĪ wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. RICHARD POWERS is the author of twelve novels. Thomas McGuane 'An extraordinary novelAn astonishing performanceThere is something exhilarating, too, in reading a novel whose context is wider than human life.

'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama The Overstory is a visionary, accessible legend for the planet that owns us, its exaltation and its peril, a remarkable achievement by a great writer. ** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 **

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