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The Overstory by Richard Powers
25.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'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 ...Show more
The Overstory (US HB) by Richard Powers
65.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
** LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ** 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' - Margaret Atwood A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of ...Show more
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities.Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet t ...Show more