The overstory: a novel
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"The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 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 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. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe." --
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Powers, R., & Toren, S. (2018). The overstory: a novel. Unabridged. Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957- and Suzanne, Toren. 2018. The Overstory: A Novel. Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957- and Suzanne, Toren, The Overstory: A Novel. Findaway World, LLC, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard and Suzanne Toren. The Overstory: A Novel. Unabridged. Findaway World, LLC, 2018.
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| Last Sierra Extract Time | Jul 01, 2025 06:04:27 PM |
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| Last File Modification Time | Jul 01, 2025 06:04:42 PM |
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