‘This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived’<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate 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.<\/p>\n
Moving through history and across landscapes, this tree-filled novel unfurls our potential to destroy or restore the natural world.<\/p>\n
‘It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it’ Barack Obama<\/b><\/p>\n
THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER and WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION<\/b><\/p>\n
Vintage 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.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nine strangers, each in different ways, become summoned by trees, brought together in a last stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. ‘The Overstory’ unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable, ranging from antebellum New York to the late-20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, revealing a world alongside our own – vast, slow, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[69,127,741],"class_list":["post-93293","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-general-fiction","product_tag-historical-fiction","product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction-post-c-1945","product_tag-trees-wildflowers-plants","pa_book_author-powers-richard","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-813-6-edition23","pa_edition-reprint","pa_imprint-vintage-classics","pa_language-english","pa_pages-10139","pa_publisher-vintage-classics","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n