TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powers,Richard
TI  - The overstory
SN  - 9781785151644 (paperback) 
U1  - 813.54 POW 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - William Heinemann
KW  - Novel
KW  - English
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Texts
KW  - Trees
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Deforestation
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Forest conservation
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Human-plant relationships
N2  - 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.
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