The Overstory
A Novel
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2022, ©2018.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 807 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core series.
Subjects:
Trees -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction.
Deforestation -- Fiction.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction.
Forest conservation -- Fiction.
Environmental protection -- Fiction.
Human-plant relationships -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Trees -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction.
Deforestation -- Fiction.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction.
Forest conservation -- Fiction.
Environmental protection -- Fiction.
Human-plant relationships -- Fiction.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432897802
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Powers | Southeast | Large Print Fiction | In |
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019