
Titre : | The overstory |
Auteurs : | Richard Powers, Auteur |
Type de document : | Ouvrage |
Editeur : | London : Penguin Books, 2018 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-78515-163-7 |
Format : | 502 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | 800 (Littérature / Fiction) |
Catégories : |
Thésaurus du Management CHANGEMENT ; CLIMAT ; ECOLOGIE ; ENVIRONNEMENT ; LITTERATURE ; MONDE ; NOUVELLE ; PROTECTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT |
Résumé : |
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 another. Thse and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forect.
There is a world alonside 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. |
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203631 | 800 POW-2018 | Imprimé | Bibliothèque | Littérature et fiction | Disponible |