Solar (Hardcover) by Ian McEwan
Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. An inveterate philanderer, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.
With a global scope, SOLAR is a comedy dealing directly with the crises of today. A story of one man’s ambitions and self-deceptions, it is a startling and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers.
“A comedy every bit as brilliant as its title might suggest … Blazing with imaginative and intellectual energy, Solar is a stellar performance.”
-Sunday Times
“A stunningly accomplished work, possibly [McEwan's] best yet.”Financial Times
in Solar, 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.”The Spectator
$14.50 Publication Date: 2010-03-18 Publisher: Random House Amazon.com
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