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Goodreads the overstory6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. ![]() Well, the man on the ground says, Im sticking i. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. Of course, this is an in-joke, too, because The Overstory is full of all these things: drama, development, colliding hopes and fears, tangled plots and lots of characters. 654 quotes from The Overstory: But the senses never have much chance, against the power of doctrine. ![]() People from multiple generations have extraordinary encounters with nature in this epic novel of our relationship to trees, and their relationship to one another.Īn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. Community Selection Book The Overstory, by Richard Powers SR! Season 2022 Description ![]()
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