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New York Times BestsellerShortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeOne of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2018A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.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 four, 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.In his...

Author

Richard Powers - undifferentiated, Richard Powers

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393635539