Who wrote The Overstory?

Richard Powers wrote The Overstory, first published in 2018. It is a work of literary fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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Essential Read

The Overstory

Name: The Overstory
Author: Richard Powers

by Richard Powers · 2018

Literary Fiction · ranked #30 in category

Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2019

Nine Americans whose lives are changed by trees — a chestnut tree photographed for generations, a couple bonded by a sentinel banyan, a scientist who discovers trees communicate — are drawn together in a defence of old-growth forests. Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel makes trees the protagonist of American history and asks whether human consciousness will arrive before or after the damage is done.

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