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The Overstory
por Powers, Richard
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Livreiro
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este 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.
Sinopse
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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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 6547
- Título
- The Overstory
- Autor
- Powers, Richard
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Editorial
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2018
- Palavras-chave
- American Literature, 21st Century Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Environment, Environmentalism, Ecoterrorism, Logging
Termos da venda
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Sobre o Vendedor
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Membro de Biblio desde 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
Sobre Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Fine
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