The Overstory

Author(s): Richard Powers

General Fiction

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. 


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781784708245
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.461
  • : March 2019
  • : 3.3 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Richard Powers
  • : Paperback
  • : 640