The overstory a novel Powers, Richard 1957- creator author. text Nature fiction. nyu 2018 First edition. monographic eng
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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."-- Richard Powers. Trees Fiction Environmental protection Fiction PS3566.O92 O94 2018 813/.54 9780393635522 (hardcover) 039363552X (hardcover) 9780393635522 039363552X 9780393635522 039363552X 2017051173 DLC 180315 20190502001738.0 6703591 eng