Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels. His most recent, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
"Should be mandatory reading the world over." -- Emilia Clarke
"An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies
like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and
connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them." --
citation from the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
"This book is beyond special.... It's a kind of breakthrough in the
ways we think about and understand the world around us, at a moment
when that is desperately needed." -- Bill McKibben
"The Overstory is a visionary, accessible legend for the
planet that owns us, its exaltation and its peril, a remarkable
achievement by a great writer." -- Thomas McGuane
"The best novels change the way you see. Richard Powers's The
Overstory does this. Haunting." -- Geraldine Brooks
"A towering achievement by a major writer." -- Robert Macfarlane,
author of Underland
"This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American
literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction....
Remarkable." -- Ron Charles - The Washington Post
"Powers is the rare American novelist writing in the grand realist
tradition, daring to cast himself, in the critic Peter Brooks's
term, as a 'historian of contemporary society.' He has the courage
and intellectual stamina to explore our most complex social
questions with originality, nuance, and an innate skepticism about
dogma. At a time when literary convention favors novelists who
write narrowly about personal experience, Powers's ambit is
refreshingly unfashionable, restoring to the form an authority it
has shirked." -- Nathaniel Rich - The Atlantic
"Monumental... The Overstory accomplishes what few living
writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt. Using the
tools of the story, he pulls readers heart-first into a perspective
so much longer-lived and more subtly developed than the human
purview that we gain glimpses of a vast, primordial sensibility,
while watching our own kind get whittled down to size.... A
gigantic fable of genuine truths." -- Barbara Kingsolver - The New
York Times Book Review
"A big, ambitious epic.... Powers juggles the personal dramas of
his far-flung cast with vigor and clarity. The human elements of
the book-the arcs his characters follow over the decades from
crusading passion to muddled regret and a sense of failure-are
thoroughly compelling. So are the extra-human elements, thanks to
the extraordinary imaginative flights of Powers's prose, which
persuades you on the very first page that you're hearing the voices
of trees as they chide our species." -- Michael Upchurch - The
Boston Globe
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