CD Audiobook

The overstory / by Richard Powers.

Powers, Richard, 1957- (author.). Toren, Suzanne, (narrator.). Recorded Books, Inc., (publisher.).

Summary:

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 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. These and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501977541
ISBN: 1501977547
Physical Description: 20 audio discs (23 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2018]
Copyright: ℗2018