The Overstory - Vintage Earth

'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'This is the story of a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, brought together to save it from catastrophe.An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate 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.Moving through history and across landscapes, this tree-filled novel unfurls our potential to destroy or restore the natural world.'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack ObamaTHE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER and WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONVintage Earth is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

ISBN:	9781784877910
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	07 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	813.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	2630
Number of pages:	625
Weight:	508g
Height:	131mm
Width:	195mm
Spine width:	44mm

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