A 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 1...
A 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 twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel 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, The Overstory 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, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. 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.
The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There’s something you need to hear."
作者简介
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Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
A novel, honest and radical. A distinction is made, as to the arrogant and blind hunger of progress for humans, and the generous and intellectual stillness of nature. Intelligence is destroyed by the ...A novel, honest and radical. A distinction is made, as to the arrogant and blind hunger of progress for humans, and the generous and intellectual stillness of nature. Intelligence is destroyed by the self-deemed intelligent.
读完以后充满反省和怀疑。做人，不管是做人还是做Homo Sapiens，还是要卑微一点。(展开)
Some good ideas to connect nature and literature but the whole thread is too long and jumpy to keep up. Giving credit to the botanist’s story nonetheless.
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0 有用 圣小香 2023-12-04 10:52:22 美国
2023_10 没读完的一本书。在书店看到从图书馆里借来读，读了几章就没有继续读了。再拾起来已经隔了数月，又没有什么动力继续读了。有机会很想要把它读完的一本。
0 有用 xxx 2023-04-09 08:33:19 美国
tears brewed on the verge of trees-pages-histories
0 有用 yuyiivy 2021-07-16 12:26:51
太多不认识的单词了，想表达的东西又复杂又灵活，所以可能我还是适合看non-fiction吧
0 有用 阿波 2021-01-14 01:33:37
A novel, honest and radical. A distinction is made, as to the arrogant and blind hunger of progress for humans, and the generous and intellectual stillness of nature. Intelligence is destroyed by the ... A novel, honest and radical. A distinction is made, as to the arrogant and blind hunger of progress for humans, and the generous and intellectual stillness of nature. Intelligence is destroyed by the self-deemed intelligent. 读完以后充满反省和怀疑。做人，不管是做人还是做Homo Sapiens，还是要卑微一点。 (展开)
1 有用 … 2022-08-16 00:08:56
比起新书Bewilderment这本太难读了。又长又无聊，再（根据同事原话）sprinkled with a little eco-facism on top.
0 有用 Michelle_WFLMS 2024-08-11 00:10:14 上海
Some good ideas to connect nature and literature but the whole thread is too long and jumpy to keep up. Giving credit to the botanist’s story nonetheless.
0 有用 VinceTsang 2023-12-20 22:52:58 日本
文字和思想和世界都支离破碎。
0 有用 圣小香 2023-12-04 10:52:22 美国
2023_10 没读完的一本书。在书店看到从图书馆里借来读，读了几章就没有继续读了。再拾起来已经隔了数月，又没有什么动力继续读了。有机会很想要把它读完的一本。
0 有用 xxx 2023-04-09 08:33:19 美国
tears brewed on the verge of trees-pages-histories
1 有用 … 2022-08-16 00:08:56
比起新书Bewilderment这本太难读了。又长又无聊，再（根据同事原话）sprinkled with a little eco-facism on top.