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008			171114s2018 nyua 000 f eng
010			_a 2017051173
020			_a9780393635522 _qhardcover
020			_a039363552X _qhardcover
020			_a9781785151637
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037			_bW W Norton & Co Inc, Keystone Industrial Park Attn Mike Charnogursky 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 _nSAN 202-5795
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050	0	0	_aPS3566.O92 _bO94 2018
100	1		_aPowers, Richard, _d1957- _eauthor. _976524
245	1	4	_aThe overstory : _ba novel / _cRichard Powers.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2018]
300			_a502 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
505	0		_aRoots -- Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds.
520			_aAn 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 to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, 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. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel 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, The Overstory 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, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. 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. The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? -- from dust jacket.
546			_aText in English.
650		0	_aTrees _xEcology _vFiction. _976525
650		0	_aTree-sitting protests _vFiction. _976526
650		0	_aAnti-logging actions _vFiction. _976527
655		7	_aNature fiction. _2lcgft _976528
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _976529
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _967239
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948			_hHELD BY WUY - 630 OTHER HOLDINGS