Reader Score
90%
90% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 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.
"If you are in the mood for something that stimulates your thinking instead of providing answers, though, you’ll love The Overstory. It’s very well-written and takes twists you wouldn’t expect."
Tim Ferriss is an entrepreneur, author and podcaster.
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After the epic sweep of THE OVERSTORY, Richard Powers pared down for a shorter, more intimate book with BEWILDERMENT: “It is a little bit like writing a piano sonata after writing a symphony,” says the novelist. https://bit.ly/3tX0Ot0 @wwnorton