Powers, Richard, 1957-
The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers. - First edition. - 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"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 strangerseach summoned in different ways by treesare brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continents few remaining acres of virgin forest."--
9780393635522 (hardcover) 039363552X (hardcover) 9780393635522 039363552X 9780393635522 27.95 039363552X 27.95
2017051173
Trees--Fiction.
Environmental protection--Fiction.
Nature fiction.
PS3566.O92 / O94 2018
813/.54
The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers. - First edition. - 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"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 strangerseach summoned in different ways by treesare brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continents few remaining acres of virgin forest."--
9780393635522 (hardcover) 039363552X (hardcover) 9780393635522 039363552X 9780393635522 27.95 039363552X 27.95
2017051173
Trees--Fiction.
Environmental protection--Fiction.
Nature fiction.
PS3566.O92 / O94 2018
813/.54