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The Overstory
by Powers, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown paper on the boards with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, name and short notes on the front endpaper, sparse marginalia. Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of "activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.
Synopsis
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W.W. Norton. It is Powers's twelfth novel. The novel is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Powers was inspired to write the work while teaching at Stanford University after he encountered giant redwood trees for the first time. On 20 September 2018, The Overstory was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.On 15 April 2019, it was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6547
- Title
- The Overstory
- Author
- Powers, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- American Literature, 21st Century Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Environment, Environmentalism, Ecoterrorism, Logging
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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