The Overstory - A Novel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2019
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| Verlag | Norton |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 512 |
| Format | 16,4 x 4,1 x 24,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 762 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 039363552X |
| EAN | 9780393635522 |
| Bestell-Nr | 39363552EA |
A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most prodigiously talented novelists (The New York Times Book Review).
Klappentext:
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 continents 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.