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“The Overstory: A Novel (English Edition)”，作者：[Richard Powers]

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List

A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073VX7HT4
出版社 ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 第 Reprint 版 (2018年4月3日)
出版日期 ‏ : ‎ 2018年4月3日
语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语
文件大小 ‏ : ‎ 5847 KB
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Leda D. Schubert

and the love people are capable of

2018年4月18日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表

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I finished this magnificent, life-changing book 1/2 hour ago, and I hope to read it again soon. Powers takes on the single most important topic of our time: the effects of humans on the planet and the possibility of a future. Through 9 varied characters, he brings to life the old forests, the lives of individual trees, the quest for AI, and the love people are capable of, among other themes. It's a tour de force of creation and, at 500 pages, it could have gone on forever and I would have been happy. It will also break your heart, but it's not completely without hope. Highest recommendation.

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Michael Anthony

Spoiler Alert: Another Pulitzer bust.

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The opening short stories are great, but the book soon devolves into a boring repetition of its underlying mantra: People who like trees are good and noble souls; all others are shallow and stupid cretins. To hammer this point home, we come to divorced, exam-failing Olivia who has walked by a lovely tree for years and never taken notice of it grandeur and mysteries; and this self-centered trollop trudges home alone in the cold dark winter night, gets high on hashish, blisses out on trance music, falls onto her bed randy for self-pleasure and electrocutes herself as she turns out the light. Got it NOW?

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Sunny

Two-thirds wonderful.

2018年9月21日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表

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This book could have been two-thirds as long and been the better for it. I mistakenly thought the book was all short stories and if that had been the case, it would have been magical. The “short stories” were the best I have ever read. The middle allowed all the characters to develop the “tree theme” and that, too, was well done. By the final third, it was all hippy-dippy, tinfoil hat, stream of conscious waste of the trees it took to write the book. Sometimes, you just have to STOP. Or get a better editor.

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Aran Joseph Canes

A Most Extraordinary Walk in the Park

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When looking for a literary analogue, The Overstory is almost something of a Dostoevskian novel. The themes are different of course—-Powers is not interested in discussing God or the basis of morality—but one does get the sense in reading the Overstory that the plot, characters and various literary devices are all at the service of the author’s philosophical vision. And by philosophical I don’t mean esoteric fine points of metaphysics but the larger question of the future of life on earth—in both Powers and Dostoevsky there is almost a return to the themes of ancient apocalyptic writings.

While Powers certainly doesn’t need authentication of his narrative power—he has already won a National Book Award among many literary prizes—I can vouchsafe that he is an excellent storyteller. Similarly, his ability to create characters that may stretch the bounds of believability but still generate passionate sympathetic feelings in the reader is also beyond doubt.

Thus, I found myself reading the Overstory with every free moment I had over two days and loving nearly every page.

The overarching philosophy of the work is that human beings, either willfully or not, do not understand the amount of destruction they are causing to the world’s flora. Plants and trees, one of the oldest of the earth’s kingdoms, are only now beginning to be understood as beings that communicate, learn and in some instances even care for their own offspring. The human caused biocide of the world’s flora is a tragedy not only because these trees may have medicinal or other useful properties for humans but also because each one is a beautiful product of nature fashioned over millions of years. In the author’s view, we seem to be destroying some of the most important parts of creation, so that everyone can, so to speak, have a bigger projection screen TV.

Nor are biofuels, renewable energy or other technological fixes likely to stem this downward spiral. Even virtual reality is only going to be as interesting as the humans who create it and so cannot be a genuine substitute for the complexity of what nature provides for us gratis in the real world.

The author seems to envision only two scenarios: either humankind will wipe itself out and the earth will generate new, unforeseeable solutions to life or artificial intelligence will impose a solution on a humanity which cannot save itself.

To those who have read optimistic works like Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now or related perspectives such environmental pessimism is somewhat startling. I can’t say that I am fully persuaded by Powers’ perspective but I can appreciate the accuracy of his science, the literary craftsmanship that went into embodying these ideas and the importance of his overall message.

So, if you are willing to endure a literary punch to the stomach and put on apocalyptic glasses then you will thoroughly enjoy The Overstory. But, though a love of trees thoroughly permeates the book, it is hardly a walk in the park.

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Burt J. Kempner

I read this remarkable book with mounting awe

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A wise, deep, moving epic by an exceptional writer. I was totally entranced. There are fabulous stand-alone set pieces, engaging characters, glorious prose and a soul-stirring look into the inner lives of trees. It’s one of a handful of books of which I can say I was a different person when I finished it. Bravo, Mr. Powers. This may very well be your masterpiece.

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