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The overstory a novel Cover Image Large Print Book

The overstory a novel

Powers, Richard 1957- (author.).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781432897802
  • ISBN: 1432897802
  • Physical Description: large print
    807 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2022.

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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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Subject:
Trees Symbolic aspects Fiction
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Forest conservation Fiction
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Ecofiction.
Large print books.
Novels.

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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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