The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Richard, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees--Fiction.

Trees.

Nature.

Mental Health.

mental health.

Nature stories.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Health.

Genre:

Fiction.

Nature fiction.

Novels.

Nature stories.

Novels

Nature stories

Nature fiction

Fiction

Literary fiction.

Physical Description:

502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Summary:

A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

"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.

Contents:

Roots

Nicholas Hoel

Mimi Ma

Adam Appich

Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly

Douglas Pavlicek

Neelay Mehta

Patricia Westerford

Olivia Vandergriff

Trunk

Crown

Seeds.

Notes:

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

2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Powers, Richard, 1957- Overstory.

ISBN:

039363552X

9780393635522

OCLC:

988292556