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I've brought this up before, but I've been reading around it for a while (haven't managed to pick up a copy and read the full thing yet) and that alone has made quite the impression. I also know someone who's currently reading it and it's put them on their arse with regard to how they view climate action and humanity's relationship with the natural world.
I don't think he's necessarily saying anything that new, but the fact that a "serious" writer like Powers has turned his eye to this sort of thing has a lot of value, imo, particularly at this time. As he says in the book, “the best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story”.
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I don't think he's necessarily saying anything that new, but the fact that a "serious" writer like Powers has turned his eye to this sort of thing has a lot of value, imo, particularly at this time. As he says in the book, “the best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story”.
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon Best Book of the Year Now Available in Paperback The...
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