TY - BOOK AU - Powers,Richard TI - The overstory SN - 9781784708245 (pbk.) : AV - PS3566.O92 O94 2019 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - General KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2018 N2 - 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 ER -