# The Overstory

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- Authors: [Richard Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-09-06

## Description

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton 'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. 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. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.

## Editions

### The Overstory

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-179-8
- Published: 2024-09-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Overstory

- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-178-1
- Pages: 640
- Published: 2024-08-29
- Language: en_US

### The Overstory

- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 22 h 58 min
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- ISBN: 978-14-7356-685-9
- Published: 2018-09-06
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Sobre o Céu](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers/pt/sobre-o-ceu) (pt_PT)