The overstory

Richard Powers

Original title: The Overstory

earliest edition we have, 2018 Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2018 512 pages

*The Overstory* unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late-twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate i...

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Editions we hold

Overstory edition · 2024 · Penguin Books, Limited · 640 pages · 9781804951781
Overstory edition · 2022 · Penguin Random House · 9781784877910
Overstory edition · 2022 · Cengage Gale · 9781432897802
Die Wurzeln des Lebens paperback · 2020 · S Fischer Verlag GmbH · 9783596703128
Overstory edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 640 pages · 9781473554498
El clamor de los bosques paperback · 2019 · Alianza Editorial · 608 pages · 9788491814443
The Overstory paperback · 2019 · W. W. Norton & Company · 512 pages · 9780393356687
Overstory edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 640 pages · 9781784708245
Overstory edition · 2018 · Penguin Random House · 9781473554481
The Overstory paperback · 2018 · William Heinemann · 512 pages · 9781785151644
Overstory edition · 2018 · Penguin Random House · 512 pages · 9781785151637
The overstory edition · 2018 · W. W. Norton & Company · 502 pages · 9780393635522

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