The Overstory
Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Over One Year on theĀ New York TimesĀ Bestseller List
AĀ New York TimesĀ Notable Book and aĀ Washington Post,Ā Time,Ā Oprah Magazine,Ā Newsweek,Ā Chicago Tribune, andĀ Kirkus ReviewsĀ Best Book of the Year
"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." āAnn Patchett
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 ofāand paean toāthe natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powersās 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 oursāvast, 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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$6.63The Overstory
Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Over One Year on theĀ New York TimesĀ Bestseller List
AĀ New York TimesĀ Notable Book and aĀ Washington Post,Ā Time,Ā Oprah Magazine,Ā Newsweek,Ā Chicago Tribune, andĀ Kirkus ReviewsĀ Best Book of the Year
"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." āAnn Patchett
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 ofāand paean toāthe natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powersās 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 oursāvast, 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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Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Over One Year on theĀ New York TimesĀ Bestseller List
AĀ New York TimesĀ Notable Book and aĀ Washington Post,Ā Time,Ā Oprah Magazine,Ā Newsweek,Ā Chicago Tribune, andĀ Kirkus ReviewsĀ Best Book of the Year
"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." āAnn Patchett
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 ofāand paean toāthe natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powersās 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 oursāvast, 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.
