Free shipping on orders over $99
The Overstory

The Overstory

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

by Richard Powers
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/04/2018

Share This Book:

 
$32.99

**Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018**

The endlessly fascinating new novel from one of the greatest living American novelists.

Nine strangers, each in different ways, become summoned by trees, brought together in a last stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable, ranging from antebellum New York to the late-twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, revealing a world alongside our own - vast, slow, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us.

This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world, and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

ISBN:
9781785151644
9781785151644
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-04-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
512
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x41mm
Weight:
0.62kg
Richard Powers

Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, including Orfeo (which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), The Echo Maker, The Time of Our Singing, Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the Dark.

He is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and the National Book Award, and has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time NBCC finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

Be the first to review The Overstory.