The overstory
By: by Richard Powers
Contributors: Toren, Suzanne, narrator; Recorded Books, Inc
Edition: Unabridged.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 23
ISBN-13: 9781501977541
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Trees; Fiction
Other titles: Over story
Description: 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.
Notes: Title from disc surface.

Compact discs.

In container (17 cm.).

Narrated by Suzanne Toren.