The Overstory: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize-Winner) [B1284-HC]

2018 HCDJ later printing in nice clean condition. The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work 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, Richard Powers's twelfth novel 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. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is an extraordinary book, incredible in its exhilarating scope. A fiction novel as well as an earth science manifesto. It begins with non-related biographical vignettes which later are grown and repeated into interwoven destinies. The common factor of all is trees, alluded to in comprehensive ways. This book was recommended to me by my brother who works with the Smoky Mountain National Park. He has made the acquaintance of the reclusive author who lives in Townsend, Tennessee. This book goes to the top of my list."; "Fabulous book, achingly sad in many places, but loved the connections human and natural."; "Fascinating read. I will not see trees in the same ol' way ever again. And I thought I appreciated them before. This had me watching hours of documentaries about trees and plants. Reading, thinking. A book that made me marvel. Simply marvelous. And also a bit weird."