The Overstory

Richard Powers

Vintage Earth collection

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This is the story of a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, brought together to save it from catastrophe.

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate 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.

Moving through history and across landscapes, this tree-filled novel unfurls our potential to destroy or restore the natural world.

'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama

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

Vintage Earth is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

Review

A novel about the natural world - trees specifically - and our power as human beings to destroy it or redeem it. It reminds me that we are all connected and that there is still time to make things right -- TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage

An extraordinary novel... It's an astonishing performance... The Overstory leaves you with a slightly adjusted frame of reference ― Guardian

Should be mandatory reading the world over -- EMILIA CLARKE

On almost every page of The Overstory you will find sentences that combine precision and vision. You will learn new facts about trees... [An] exhilarating read ― The Times

One of the most thoughtful and involving novels I've read for years... Extraordinary ― Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Richard Powers
Vydavatel	Vintage Classics 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, United Kingdom customerservices@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk https://www.penguin.co.uk/ +44 20 7840 8400
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	640
Formát	12,9 × 19,8 cm
EAN	9781784877910
Rok vydání	2022
Edice	Dobrodružné, válečné, historické romány Současná beletrie