Edition |
Unabridged. |
Description |
20 audio discs (23 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. |
Playing Time |
230000 |
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digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
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Title from disc surface. |
Performer |
Narrated by Suzanne Toren. |
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Compact discs. |
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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.
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Trees -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction.
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Deforestation -- Fiction.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction.
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Forest conservation -- Fiction.
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Environmental protection -- Fiction.
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Human-plant relationships -- Fiction.
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Trees. (OCoLC)fst01155984
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Nature fiction.
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Novels.
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Audiobooks.
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Added Author |
Toren, Suzanne, narrator.
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Recorded Books, Inc., publisher.
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Added Title |
Over story |
ISBN |
9781501977541 |
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1501977547 |
Music No. |
C05046 Recorded Books |
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