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The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work 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 seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
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The Overstory, Richard Powers
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- The Overstory
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Powers
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN10
- 039335668X
- ISBN13
- 9780393356687
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Nature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Environmental Themes, American Literature, Realistic Fiction, Literary Fiction, Climate Change, Activism, Searching for the meaning of life, Trees, Pulitzer Prize
- First published
- 2018
- Original title
- The Overstory
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work 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 seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.