OVERSTORY
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 into 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,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-63552-2
- EAN: 9780393635522
- Produktnummer: 23250404
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.7 cm x D3.5 cm 773 g
- Gewicht: 773
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Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels. His most recent, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. 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. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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