The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Taste attributes: dramapoliticalslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticintricatebig & variedemotive & stirringsocial commentaryunlikely connections
Boxlist takeA weighty, grounded novel: wide-ranging and original. Best if you like depth over escapism.
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.2 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Richard Powers
- Published
- 2018
- Pages
- 531
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- Open Library
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