Powers’s prose enchants as he explores the secret life of plants
Richard Powers’s stories trace the faultline between scientific rationalism and a literary (or even romantic) humanism
FICTION: The Overstory, By Richard Powers, William Heinemann, €21.85
In 1979, an English environmentalist named James Lovelock published a strange and fascinating book. It was called Gaia: A New Look At Life On Earth, and it proposed a revolutionary way of understanding our world. Instead of seeing our home planet as a collection of evolutionary accidents, Lovelock suggested that we see it as an holistic biosphere – a sort of lifeform unto itself....
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