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
Content descriptions
- 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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- Trees > Symbolic aspects > Fiction.
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- 7 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
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- 1 current hold with 8 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | LP FIC POWERS (Text) | 36015000527594 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
