The overstory: a novel
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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.
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Powers, R. (2022). The overstory: a novel. Large print edition. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957-. 2022. The Overstory: A Novel. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957-, The Overstory: A Novel. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard. The Overstory: A Novel. Large print edition. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
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