The Overstory.
de POWERS, Richard
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Librería
-
Edmonds, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2018. Signed by Richard Powers on a specially printed Overstory bookplate which has been laid into the book (not mounted). First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine, brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Richard Powers' remarkable novel, which went quickly into later printings. It is a novel about trees and the natural world. Trees are living things whose lives are measured in centuries, but can be wiped out in days. It is also the story of several people whose lives are linked to trees, and their attempts to stop the destruction of these natural wonders. The Overstory is the Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Overstory is the 2020 Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize. Richard Powers was the Recipient of a 1989 MacArthur Genius Grant. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1999 Recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. The Goldbug Variations was Times Magazine's Book of the Year in 1991. The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orfeo was Nominated for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 18276-1
- Título
- The Overstory.
- Autor
- POWERS, Richard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Brown paper spine, brown paper-covered boards.
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition / First printing.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Editorial
- W. W. Norton and Company,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 2018.
- Páginas
- 502 pages.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Nature; Fiction;
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