TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powers,Richard
TI  - The overstory: a novel 
SN  - 9780393635522 (hardcover)
AV  - PS3566.O92 O94 2018
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Trees
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Nature fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "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."--
ER  -