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The Overstory by Richard Powers AZW3
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018.
The New York Times best seller.
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.
An artist inherits 100 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. An Air Force crew member in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
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