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OverviewRe-jacketed in stunning new series style, Solar is an engrossing, satirical and very funny novel about 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. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ian McEwanPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.245kg ISBN: 9780099549024ISBN 10: 0099549026 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 03 March 2011 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsSavagely 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 * Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining...a stellar performance Sunday Times A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet...both funny and serious, light and dark, morally engaged and ironically detached Financial Times A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic -- Lorna Bradbury Daily Telegraph Wonderfully enjoyable... He shows a side to himself as a writer - a puckishness, a broadness of humour, an extravagance of style - that we haven't seen before -- Sam Leith Spectator McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny Mail on Sunday Author InformationIan McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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