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The Overstory

A novel from the Vintage Earth collection

Richard Powers

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English
Vintage Classics
01 November 2022
Series: Vintage Earth
VINTAGE EARTH- Change the story. Novels to transform our relationship with the natural world.

'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'

This is the story of a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, brought together to save it from catastrophe.

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate 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.

Moving through history and across landscapes, this tree-filled novel unfurls our potential to destroy or restore the natural world.

'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER and WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

Vintage Earth is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

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Imprint:   Vintage Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 37mm
Weight:   437g
ISBN:   9781784877910
ISBN 10:   1784877913
Series:   Vintage Earth
Pages:   640
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Reviews for The Overstory: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection

A novel about the natural world - trees specifically - and our power as human beings to destroy it or redeem it. It reminds me that we are all connected and that there is still time to make things right -- TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage An extraordinary novel... It's an astonishing performance... The Overstory leaves you with a slightly adjusted frame of reference * Guardian * Should be mandatory reading the world over -- EMILIA CLARKE On almost every page of The Overstory you will find sentences that combine precision and vision. You will learn new facts about trees... [An] exhilarating read * The Times * One of the most thoughtful and involving novels I've read for years... Extraordinary * Daily Telegraph *


  • Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019 (UK)

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