The Overstory, 9781804951781
Paperback
Nine lives intertwined, a desperate fight to save the world’s trees.

The Overstory

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  • Paperback

    640 pages

  • Release Date

    2 December 2024

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Summary

The Overstory: A Symphony of Trees and Lives

A wondrous and 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 a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781804951781
ISBN-10:1804951781
Author:Richard Powers
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Penguin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:640
Release Date:2 December 2024
Weight:444g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 39mm
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Critics Review

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

‘Radical and exciting’ Jessie Burton ‘Breathtaking’ Barbara Kingsolver ‘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

About The Author

Richard Powers

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.

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