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THE OVERSTORY - RICHARD POWERS GEBUNDEN

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.   In his twelfth novel 
National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping  impassioned novel of activism
and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the
roots to the crown and back to the seeds  The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of
interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber
Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond  exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the
one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours-vast  slow 
interconnected  resourceful  magnificently inventive  and almost invisible to us. This is the
story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its
unfolding catastrophe.   The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's
self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative 
regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak  what would
they tell us? "Listen. There's something you need to hear."

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