The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

by Richard Powers

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*THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
*WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION*

A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.

'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama

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...

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  • ISBN10 1784708240
  • ISBN13 9781784708245
  • Publish Date 11 April 2019 (first published 16 March 2018)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 3 September 2024
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Vintage
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 640
  • Language English