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The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393635522 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 039363552X
- ISBN: 9780393356687 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
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- 3 of 5 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 3 current holds with 5 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | POWER R (Text) | 33126023010295 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Covington Branch | POWER R (Text) | 33126024880829 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/04/2024 |
| Erlanger Branch | POWER R (Text) | 33126023110814 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | POWER R (Text) | 33126024336616 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | POWER R (Text) | 33126024131496 | Breakout Collection 1 | Checked out | 05/12/2024 |
- Baker & Taylor
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. - Baker & Taylor
The National Book Award-winning author ofThe Overstory presents an impassioned novel of activism and natural-world power that is comprised of interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. - WW Norton
New York Times BestsellerShortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeA monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. - WW Norton
An 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 into 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 strangersâeach summoned in different ways by treesâare brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continentâs few remaining acres of virgin forest.The OverstoryThe Overstory"Listen. Thereâs something you need to hear."