National Book Award
Winner of the National Book Award, this is the rare novel that changes how you listen to the world. Nine lives. Nine trees. One urgent, quietly astonishing story of what we stand to lose — and what the forest has been trying to tell us all along.
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Winner of the National Book Award, this is one of those rare novels that doesn’t just change how you see the world — it changes how you listen to it.
Nine strangers. Nine lives quietly shaped by trees. An Air Force loadmaster saved by a banyan after being shot from the sky. An artist inheriting a century of portraits of a dying American chestnut. A young woman who dies, briefly, and returns transformed. A scientist who discovers that forests are not silent — they are speaking. Each of them is summoned, in their own way, toward something larger than themselves. Together, they converge in a last, desperate stand to protect what little ancient forest remains.
Sweeping from antebellum New York to the Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest, The Overstory unfolds like the rings of a great tree — concentric, patient, and quietly astonishing. It is a novel of activism and grief, of wonder and resistance, and of the vast, slow, interconnected world that exists just alongside our own, almost invisible, if only we’d stop long enough to notice.
This is the kind of book that lingers. The kind you press into a friend’s hands and say, just trust me. The kind that makes you pause on the Marginal Way and look at the old pines a little differently on your way home.
If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? Listen. There’s something you need to hear.
The Overstory is a heroic, humane novel that does what the best fiction can do — change the way we see the world.
A sweeping, impassioned novel... Powers has written the most ambitious environmental novel in American literary history.
Dazzling... A gigantic, multidecade, multigenerational story about trees and the people who are in thrall to them... Powers has outdone himself.
A novel of rare beauty and power... The Overstory is a book that will change you.
Magnificent... The Overstory accomplishes what all great fiction does — it makes you feel that the world is larger and stranger and more alive than you had previously imagined.
Powers has written a novel of extraordinary ambition and sweep... a book that asks us to see the world differently, and largely succeeds.
Extraordinary... a deeply researched, lovingly crafted novel that makes a compelling case for the inner lives of trees.
A landmark novel about the natural world... The Overstory is an act of literary activism.
Starred Review. Powers's novel is a triumph of imagination and empathy... essential reading.
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... a stunning novel about the interconnectedness of trees and humans.
An utterly absorbing book... Powers has found the perfect form for his subject: the novel itself grows like a tree, with a strong central trunk and branches reaching in every direction.
| Weight | 1.23 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.50 × 1.20 × 8.30 in |
| Book Author | Richard Powers |
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