The Overstory : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection Paperback / softback

** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION **A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.

The perfect literary escape. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut.

A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another.

An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe. 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseVINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world.

Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow.

The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect.

Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.