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The Overstory
The Overstory
Richard Powers (born 1957)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Overstory
Penguin · United Kingdom · 29 August 2024 · Paperback · 640 pages
The Overstory
W. W. Norton & Company · United States · 3 April 2018 · Hardcover · 512 pages
The Overstory
William Heinemann · United Kingdom · 5 April 2018
The Overstory
W. W. Norton & Company · United States · 2 April 2019 · Paperback · 512 pages
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The novel opens with the separate stories of nine people, reaching back to antebellum New York: a family that photographs one chestnut tree every month for generations, a botanist ridiculed for discovering that trees communicate, a computer game designer in a wheelchair, a psychologist, a war veteran, and a student who is electrocuted, briefly dies and afterwards believes she is being called to defend the forests. Each in their own way learns to see the vast, slow world of trees. In the late 1990s their lives converge on the Pacific coast in the struggle against the logging of old-growth redwoods, where some turn from protest to violent resistance.
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About the book
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- Novel
- Genres
- Nature, Politics (assigned by AI)
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- United States
- First published
- 2018
- Author's age
- 61 when first published
- ISBN
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9780393635522 (W. W. Norton & Company, United States)
9780393356687 (W. W. Norton & Company, United States)
9781804951781 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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