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The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers. 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: 9780393635522
- ISBN: 039363552X
- Physical Description: 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Roots. Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds. |
| Awards Note: | Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist, 2019. NPR Best Books, 2018. Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2019. Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction, 2019. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Trees > Fiction. Environmental protection > Fiction. Environmentalism > Fiction. Environment responsibility > Fiction. Forests and forestry > Fiction. Forest protection > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Nature fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 14 of 15 copies available at Sage Library System.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 15 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker County Library | POWERS (Richard) (Text) | 37814003176584 | FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Cook Memorial Library - La Grande | F Powers, R (Text) | 35178001789422 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Elgin Public Library | Powers, Richard O84 (Text) | 37827000296148 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Grant County Library | AF POWERS (Text) | 37845000557780 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Harney County Library | FIC POWER (Text) | 37720000591248 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Hood River County Library | FIC POWERS (Text) | 33892100527655 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/27/2025 | ||
| Ione Public Library | 813 POW (Text) | 37843000082255 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Joseph Public Library | F POW (Text) | 30002000249987 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Milton-Freewater Public Library | FIC Power (Text) | 37862000435875 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Ontario Community Library | POWERS, Richard (Text) | 33330004372977 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
