Richard Powers

The Overstory

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. '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 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.An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. '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.

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. '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 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.An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. '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.

Jazyk anglický
Vydavateľ Vintage Classics
Počet strán 640
Typ viazania mäkká
Rozmery (š-v-h) 198 x 129
EAN 9781784877910
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