The overstory
(Book on CD)
Author
Contributors
Toren, Suzanne, narrator.
Published
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2018].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
20 CDs (23 hrs.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
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Cambria Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
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Published
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2018].
Format
Book on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Notes
Participants/Performers
Read by Suzanne Toren.
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.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2019.
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