The OverstoryRecommendations
About the book
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.
People recommending The Overstory
What readers say about ‘The Overstory’
Bill Gates on The Overstory
"One of the most unusual novels I’ve read in years."
Hugh Jackman on The Overstory
"Completely reverses the way you look at the world when you walk outside."
Emilia Clarke on The Overstory
"Should be mandatory reading the world over."
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