{"product_id":"the-overstory-by-richard-powers-9781784708245","title":"The Overstory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving through America's history and its landscape, this is a wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/em\u003e is the million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs seen on BBC 2's \u003cem\u003eBetween the Covers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' — Barack Obama\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Really, just one of the best novels, period' — Ann Patchett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a story where 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. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book' — Margaret Atwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Radical and exciting' — Jessie Burton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Breathtaking' — Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45877228994796,"sku":"9781784708245","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784708245.jpg?v=1730776237","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-overstory-by-richard-powers-9781784708245","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}