The overstory [large print] : a novel / Richard Powers.
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 strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432897802
- ISBN: 1432897802
- Physical Description: 807 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2018
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- Awards Note:
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | LP FIC POWERS (Text) | 36015000527594 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | LPFIC POW (Text) | 31111003027750 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Fletcher Branch | POW (Text) | 33258009572590 | Adult Large Print Fiction | In transit | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | POW (Text) | 33258009566998 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Lewisville Branch | LP FIC POWERS, RICHARD (Text) | 0112523486946 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | LP POW (Text) | 25908007730836 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Paddison Memorial Branch | LP FIC POWERS, RICHARD (Text) | 0112523486955 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Stovall Library | LPB FIC POWERS (Text) | 42756202358468 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
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