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'Towards the end of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory, (2018), Richard Powers attempts to articulate why literature, or more precisely the novel, has struggled to encompass climate change: 'To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.' (Introduction)
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