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Author Powers, Richard, 1957- author.

Title The overstory / by Richard Powers.

Publication Info. Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2018]
℗2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  CD BOOK POWERS    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  CDBK POWERS    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Reading Room  CD BOOK POW    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction Audiobook  CD POWERS    DUE 04-02-24
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Audiobook  BKCD POWERS    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 20 audio discs (23 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 230000
Description digital optical rda
audio file CD audio rda
Note Title from disc surface.
Performer Narrated by Suzanne Toren.
Note Compact discs.
In container (17 cm.).
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.
Subject Trees -- Fiction.
Trees -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction.
Deforestation -- Fiction.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction.
Forest conservation -- Fiction.
Environmental protection -- Fiction.
Human-plant relationships -- Fiction.
Trees. (OCoLC)fst01155984
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Nature fiction.
Novels.
Audiobooks.
Added Author Toren, Suzanne, narrator.
Recorded Books, Inc., publisher.
Added Title Over story
ISBN 9781501977541
1501977547
Music No. C05046 Recorded Books
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