The Overstory
R230
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut.
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‘It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it’ Barack Obama’ Really, just one of the best novels, period’ Ann Patchett.
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape. 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. ‘It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book’ Margaret Atwood.’ Radical and exciting’ Jessie Burton. ‘Breathtaking’ Barbara Kingsolver.
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Weight | 0,5 kg |
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Dimensions | 19 × 12 × 3,4 cm |
Date Published | April, 2019 |
Language | English |
Publisher | |
Specifications | Softcover, 640pp |