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Solar

Ian McEwan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Mar '11

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Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, Solar is an engrossing, satirical and very funny novel on climate change by the Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.

Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining * Sunday Times *
A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic * Daily Telegraph *
A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet * Financial Times *
McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny * Mail on Sunday *
Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel * The Times *

ISBN: 9780099549024

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm

Weight: 245g

304 pages