![]() Richard Powers’ new novel, The Overstory, is the first I’ve read that builds a tangled, multi-layered story around the threat that our species poses to the very survival of the natural world and that places trees firmly at the centre of his narrative – the noble life force that informs the trajectory of all the other characters’ lives ancient, wise, stoic, life-affirming, misunderstood, taken for granted, and now, catastrophically vulnerable. ![]() It seems that all of the novels that I have ever read that concern themselves with nature and the environment have either been eulogies to its beauty and splendour, survival dramas where man inevitably comes off second best, or bleak, dystopian visions of a world irretrievably damaged. Andy Childs reviews the latest novel from the multi-award-winning Richard Powers. ![]()
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