
The Overstory
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Narrated by:
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Suzanne Toren
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By:
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Richard Powers
Brought to you by Penguin.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
©2018 Richard Powers (P)2018 Random House AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"Really, just one of the best novels, period." (Ann Patchett)
"The best book I’ve [listened to] in ten years." (Emma Thompson)
"Dazzlingly written." (Robert Macfarlane)
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