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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 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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trees, forest, conservation, environment, activism, Forest conservation, Fiction, Forests and forestry, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, political, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2018-05-06, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Trees, FICTION / Literary, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2019-04-21, Fiction, nature & the environment, Deforestation, Environmental protection, Human-plant relationships, Nature, Effect of human beings on, Environmentalism, Nature stories, Nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2019-04-21, New york times bestsellerShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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The overstory: a novel
2018, W.W. Norton & Company
in English
- First edition.
039363552X 9780393635522
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