| Record Number |
790696 |
| ISBN |
9781785151644 (paperback) |
| 9781785151637 (hardback) |
| Author |
Powers, Richard, 1957- author. |
| Title |
The overstory / Richard Powers. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : William Heinemann, 2018. |
| ©2018 |
| Pagination etc. |
502 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Trees -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction |
| Deforestation -- Fiction |
| Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction |
| Forest conservation -- Fiction |
| Environmental protection -- Fiction |
| Human-plant relationships -- Fiction |
| Ecofiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F POWE |
