by Ian McEwan · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099555346
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Solar» is Ian McEwan's satirical novel, published by Vintage in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Michael Beard, a Nobel-winning physicist whose best days are behind him, lives off his prestige while unenthusiastically running a project against global warming. His fifth marriage falls apart when his wife is unfaithful, but an accident allows him to reinvent himself and save the planet. The action takes place between the Arctic and New Mexico.
Novel winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in the comedy category; its first edition dates from 2010.
For book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction interested in black humour with a climate backdrop.
Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
