The overstory / Richard Powers.
Publication details: London : William Heinemann, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.Description: 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781785151644 (paperback)
- 9781785151637 (hardback)
- 813.6 23
- Winner 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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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.
Winner 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.