Overstory

640 pages

English language

Published March 31, 2019 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-78470-824-5
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The Overstory, winner of the 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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An inspiring and important book about the magnificence of the non-human world. There isn't enough fiction like this and its rarity underlines the achievement.

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Subjects

  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, political