@article{859596,
      recid = {859596},
      author = {Powers, Richard,},
      title = {The overstory : a novel /},
      pages = {502 pages :},
      abstract = {"An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of  the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. 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 to life by creatures of air and light. A  hearing-and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees  are communicating with one another. These four, and five  other strangers -- each summoned in different ways by trees  -- are brought together in a last and violent stand to save  the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/859596},
}