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Overstory A Novel

Powers, Richard
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780393635522
Published
2018-03-16
Publisher
Vendor
Ww Norton & Co
Weight
740 gr
Height
244 mm
Width
163 mm
Thickness
41 mm
Age
01, G
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
512

Author
Powers, Richard

Biographical note

Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Overstory A Novel

Powers, Richard
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk
Powers, Richard
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk
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<em>The Overstory</em>, a novel about trees and people who understand them, is the eco-epic of the year and perhaps the decade. Unlike the Lorax, who spoke for the trees, Richard Powers prefers to let them do their own talking.--Leanne Shapton, judge for the Man Booker Prize<br /><em>The Overstory</em> is a visionary, accessible legend for the planet that owns us, its exaltation and its peril, a remarkable achievement by a great writer.--Thomas McGuane

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize
A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018

A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.
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A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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<em>The Overstory</em>, a novel about trees and people who understand them, is the eco-epic of the year and perhaps the decade. Unlike the Lorax, who spoke for the trees, Richard Powers prefers to let them do their own talking.--Leanne Shapton, judge for the Man Booker Prize<br /><em>The Overstory</em> is a visionary, accessible legend for the planet that owns us, its exaltation and its peril, a remarkable achievement by a great writer.--Thomas McGuane

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize
A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018

A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.
Read more
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9780393635522
Published
2018-03-16
Publisher
Vendor
Ww Norton & Co
Weight
740 gr
Height
244 mm
Width
163 mm
Thickness
41 mm
Age
01, G
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
512

Author
Powers, Richard

Biographical note

Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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