Description: The Overstory by Richard Powers A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.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. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains. Review THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONRadical and exciting Jessie BurtonBreathtaking Barbara KingsolverIt changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it Barack ObamaReally, just one of the best novels, period Ann Patchett Details ISBN1804951781 Author Richard Powers Pages 640 Publisher Cornerstone Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781804951781 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-12-03 Imprint Penguin Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-08-29 ISBN-10 1804951781 Alternative 9781804951798 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160687084;
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