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The Overstory

Richard Powers

From Shelf: The Pale Blue Dot: The Planet, Climate and the Animal World

** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION **A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape.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.'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseVINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
640
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9781784877910
Published Date:
7/7/2022
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 37mm
Weight:
437g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781784877910

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