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The Overstory: A Novel
The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, 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.
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A giant story about the connection between humans and nature and a love story for trees. Everyone agreed that it was beautifully written. Structured in an unconventional way, the book ties the stories together of many different people, giving us a look at how they got where we met them, and then bringing us along as they, in different ways, take a look at nature around them. The book was a bit heavy at times, emotionally and structurally. Very interesting, very beautiful, I feel like I am a better person after reading.
Was entranced by the beginning of this book, which is infused with bracingly beautiful prose. But it is just way too long, and the plot, once it finally appeared, struggled to coalesce all the stories - I preferred the almost short story structure of the beginning.
Was entranced by the beginning of this book, which is infused with bracingly beautiful prose. But it is just way too long, and the plot, once it finally appeared, struggled to coalesce all the stories - I preferred the almost short story structure of the beginning.
Kind of a life changing journey. I always loved nature but this so deepened my connection to nature.
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