The Overstory
- Author Richard Powers
- Narrator Suzanne Toren
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 6 September 2018
- Run Time 22 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe
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.
'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett
'The best book I've read in ten years' Emma Thompson
'Dazzlingly written' Robert Macfarlane
© Richard Powers 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
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| Author | Richard Powers |
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| Narrator | Suzanne Toren |
| Duration | 22 hours and 58 minutes |
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| ISBN | 9781473566859 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Genre | Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest |
| Collections | Recommended by The xigxag Ten |
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