The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393635522 (hardcover); 039363552X (hardcover); 9780393635522; 039363552X; 9780393635522; 039363552XSubject(s): Trees -- Fiction | Environmental protection -- FictionGenre/Form: Nature fiction. DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3566.O92 | O94 2018Summary: "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."-- From publisher's description.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | POWE (Browse shelf) | Available | 37941 |
"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."-- From publisher's description.
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