The Overstory [electronic resource] : The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Powers, Richard2018
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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe 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. 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett 'The best book I've read in ten years' Emma Thompson 'Dazzlingly written' Robert Macfarlane © Richard Powers 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
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Author:
Powers, Richard, AuthorToren, Suzanne, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize (Columbia University)PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist (PEN/Faulkner Foundation)Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee (The Booker Prize Foundation)Notable Books for Adults (Notable Books Council)
ISBN:
9781473566859
Language:
English
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BRN:
3197056