Richard Powers
Paperback | Pages: 502 pages Rating: 4.17 | 49745 Users | 7954 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Overstory |
| Author | : | Richard Powers |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 502 pages |
| Published | : | April 2nd 2019 by W.W. Norton & Company (first published April 3rd 2018) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Environment. Nature. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Literature |
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The Overstory 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. A New York Times Bestseller.Itemize Books Toward The Overstory
| Original Title: | The Overstory |
| ISBN: | 039335668X (ISBN13: 9780393356687) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.richardpowers.net/the-overstory/ |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2018), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2019), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2019), William Dean Howells Medal (2020), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2018) PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Shortlist (2019) |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 49745 Users | 7954 ReviewsComment On About Books The Overstory
4.5★A colossal, rising, reaching, stretching space elevator of a billion independent parts, shuttling the air into the sky and storing the sky deep underground, sorting possibility from out of nothing: the most perfect piece of self-writing code that his eyes could hope to see.A tree, viewed by a computer coder lying flat on his back on the ground, having fallen out of one. Self-writing code, perhaps self-sustaining, or like a perpetual motion machine? Hes a gamer, an inventor, one of manyAnother hour. Deserts of infinite boredom punctuated by peaks of freakish intensityPowers doing my review writing for me. My reading experience of The Overstory often felt like a forced march of The Appalachian Trail while being read poetry. In all likelihood that might appeal to some people, however I prefer a less arduous journey. I tried to escape this book once, flinging it aside at around page 60 but several positive reviews from trusty readers and the growing likelihood that this will
As per the end of my review, the book has now deservedly won a medal but for lots of reasons (not least that the Booker really does not need another American based male author winning it) I hope it does not win the gold. This book begins by giving the stories of a disparate group of individuals with different professions and backgrounds, and their interactions with the world of trees. And so I would like to start my review by commending the reviews of a number of my Goodreads friends - a
A wonderful tour of how human lives can intersect and become engaged with that of trees. The complex narrative of nine separate characters who grow alone, have different kind of formative influences from events involving trees, and then converge in mind or action by the middle of the book on the political fight in the 80s over the logging of the last old-growth forest plots in the Pacific Northwest. In the process we get to experience a satisfying interplay and integration between tree-hugger
Further Update. I can't help it: Powers' writing does something to me. I've now finished a re-read of this book and I am going back to 5 stars. It's a book that really rewards a second reading. It is much darker than I remember from first read (suicide, disillusionment, betrayal on top of the destruction of the natural world) and also much more emotional. The latter of those two surprised me because I thought that knowing the story would reduce the emotional impact, but the reverse happened.I
This is quite possibly the most amazing thing I've ever read. It's brilliant, passionate, terrifying and painful. It's too long, it's difficult to read, there are too many characters to follow....and yet, those characters are all of us, at some point in our lives. Let's just say this is The War and Peace of nature. The novel begins with the story of a chestnut tree in Iowa. It escaped the east coast chestnut blight by virtue of having been brought west in the pocket of a Swedish emigrant. If you
I sit in silence, holding the paperback copy of The Overstory in my hands, thinking of trees. Wondering which trees grew to become the books on my shelves. Wondering which ones became the cherry tree desk my grandfather made for me. Wondering how old the oak trees were that turned into the logs that made it into my wooden house, to turn into beloved bookshelves. I wonder at the kind of trees that frame my paintings. That give my brushes shape. I even have jewellery made of wood. And Swedish
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