The Overstory

Author: Richard Powers

Paperback | New

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

12.50


ISBN: 9781784708245 | Publisher: Vintage (UK) | Published: 2019

Category: Adult fiction, Environment

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 out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.

This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.