The Overstory: A Novel The Overstory: A Novel

The Overstory: A Novel

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Publisher Description

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List

A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year


"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
April 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
512
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
7.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Shane rech walker ,

Overstory

Be patient. Unusually written, but worth the read.

juliusa ,

Haunting and Life-Changing

A magnificent work that will haunt you and lead you to action. You will never look at our world the same way again. Brought me to tears many times, but there is hope. Read this, it will disturb and move you.

DJ Ad Hoc ,

Never the Same Again

It grows on you. It grows all around you. Roots and branches that weave a tale of people and trees. You’ll never look at a tree the same way again.

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