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The overstory / Richard Powers.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781980008637 :
- ISBN: 9781980008637
- ISBN: 1980008639
- Physical Description: 1 sound media player (23 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
- Publisher: [Solon, Ohio] : Findaway World, LLC : [2018], ℗2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated media audio player. Release date supplied by publisher. "HD Audio." Title from container. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Suzanne Toren. |
Summary, etc.: | The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 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 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. 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. |
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Subject: | Trees > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Nature fiction. |