The Overstory

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.

Author: Richard Powers
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/02/2019
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393356687


Award: 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist - Fiction

About the Author
Powers, Richard: - Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.