The Overstory

• Author: Powers, Richard

About Book

• Publisher: Random House
• Published date: 2018-05-03
• Pages: 625
• ISBN: 9781784708245
• GoodReads Rating: 4.1

Condition & Size

• Size: Format B (Medium Format)
• Book Type: Paperback
• Condition: Excellent

Summary

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.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.