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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10039335668X
ISBN-139780393356687
eBay Product ID (ePID)15038266809
Product Key Features
Book TitleOverstory : a Novel
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicLiterary, Political
GenreFiction
AuthorRichard Powers
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
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ReviewsThis book is beyond special.... It's a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us, at a moment when that is desperately needed., Powers is the rare American novelist writing in the grand realist tradition, daring to cast himself, in the critic Peter Brooks's term, as a 'historian of contemporary society.' He has the courage and intellectual stamina to explore our most complex social questions with originality, nuance, and an innate skepticism about dogma. At a time when literary convention favors novelists who write narrowly about personal experience, Powers's ambit is refreshingly unfashionable, restoring to the form an authority it has shirked., The Overstory is a visionary, accessible legend for the planet that owns us, its exaltation and its peril, a remarkable achievement by a great writer., Remarkable....This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction., The best book I've read in 10 years. It's a remarkable piece of literature, and the moment it speaks to is climate change. So, for me, it's a lodestone. It's a mind-opening fiction, and it connects us all in a very positive way to the things that we have to do if we want to regain our planet., This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction.... Remarkable., It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it.... It changed how I see things and that's always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading., An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them., The Overstory, a novel about trees and people who understand them, is the eco-epic of the year and perhaps the decade. Unlike the Lorax, who spoke for the trees, Richard Powers prefers to let them do their own talking., A big, ambitious epic.... Powers juggles the personal dramas of his far-flung cast with vigor and clarity. The human elements of the book--the arcs his characters follow over the decades from crusading passion to muddled regret and a sense of failure--are thoroughly compelling. So are the extra-human elements, thanks to the extraordinary imaginative flights of Powers's prose, which persuades you on the very first page that you're hearing the voices of trees as they chide our species., Monumental... The Overstory accomplishes what few living writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt. Using the tools of the story, he pulls readers heart-first into a perspective so much longer-lived and more subtly developed than the human purview that we gain glimpses of a vast, primordial sensibility, while watching our own kind get whittled down to size.... A gigantic fable of genuine truths., This book is beyond special. Richard Powers manages to turn trees into vivid and engaging characters, something that indigenous people have done for eons but that modern literature has rarely if ever even attempted. It's not just a completely absorbing, even overwhelming book; it's a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us, at a moment when that is desperately needed., A big, ambitious epic....Powers juggles the personal dramas of his far-flung cast with vigor and clarity. The human elements of the book--the arcs his characters follow over the decades from crusading passion to muddled regret and a sense of failure--are thoroughly compelling. So are the extra-human elements, thanks to the extraordinary imaginative flights of Powers's prose, which persuades you on the very first page that you're hearing the voices of trees as they chide our species., I've read a lot of good books, but the last truly great book I read was The Overstory, by Richard Powers., Powers is the rare American novelist writing inthe grand realist tradition, daring to cast himself, in the critic PeterBrooks's term, as a 'historian of contemporary society.' He has the courage andintellectual stamina to explore our most complex social questions withoriginality, nuance, and an innate skepticism about dogma. At a time whenliterary convention favors novelists who write narrowly about personalexperience, Powers's ambit is refreshingly unfashionable, restoring to the forman authority it has shirked., An extraordinary novel....An astonishing performance....There is something exhilarating, too, in reading a novel whose context is wider than human life. The Overstory leaves you with a slightly adjusted frame of reference....What was happening to his characters passed into my conscience, like alcohol into the bloodstream, and left a feeling behind of grief or guilt, even after I put it down., Monumental...The Overstory accomplishes what few living writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt. Using the tools of the story, he pulls readers heart-first into a perspective so much longer-lived and more subtly developed than the human purview that we gain glimpses of a vast, primordial sensibility, while watching our own kind get whittled down to size....A gigantic fable of genuine truths., A colleague of mine once claimed that a critic's opinions are worth less than his or her ability to convey what a book is like. If that's true, never mind that I believe Richard Powers' 12th novel to be a masterwork sculpted from sheer awe. Instead, know that reading The Overstory will convince you that we walk among gods every time we enter a forest., [Powers is] brilliant on the strange idea of 'plant personhood[,]'... opening our eyes to the wondrous things just above our line of sight. Memorable chapters unfold... [with] many unforgettable images in a novel devoted to 'reviving that dead metaphor at the heart of the word bewilderment.'
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisNew York Times BestsellerA monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists., Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post , Time , Oprah Magazine , Newsweek , Chicago Tribune , and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." --Ann Patchett, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List Named One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." --Ann Patchett, 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.O92O94 2019
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- 28. Mai. 2019
****Story
I first checked this book out from my local library. After about 50 pages I realized that I would read it more than once. And I wanted to underline too many passages to erase and return. It demanded that I buy a copy for my personal reference shelf.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 21. Jul. 2020
The lives of several people converge as they are all drawn together in a common cause. The planet we live on and how humans affect all of life.
An excellent novel by an award winning author. The book arrived on time and the condition was better than I expected.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Okt. 2019
definitely recommend this book
great stories about trees, love the content, well written engaging and lots of great historic information put into context of great story tellingBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 26. Dez. 2019
A must read!
Very good read. My only criticism is that sometimes the characters are difficult to follow. It is interesting as to how the author ties together all of the characters' lives, which explains the title of this book.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 30. Mai. 2019
Our relationships with trees
My husband is reading this for his book group and has made numerous positive comments!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 08. Apr. 2020
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Not sure the author got any royalties when this link is the only thing that changes hands...... this concerns me.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 15. Dez. 2021
Wading through the symbolism, for some interested tidbits
For me it is a difficult read. Many short stories, some are better than others. So far they are rather dark and depressing. Someone in my book club chose it, so I will finish it. Another friend reading it said, I hope it gets better. I like the information about the variety of trees.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Okt. 2019
Great Book - Wrong Format
Beware- this is an ebook - not the actual book. The format that I downloaded was choppy and difficult to read. I ended up going to a brick and mortar store to purchase an actual book. I’m sorry I wasted my money on this purchase.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 21. Apr. 2020
cannot title
I cant recommend the book because I never read it I thought I was buying a book and later found it was a e book when I tried to download it I could not do it i'm 80 years old and not that great with a computerBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 22. Jul. 2020
Unique with trees as characters
This is an unusual book. The central figures that carries the books plot are trees. I enjoyed several stories but others not so much.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
