Solar
A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
$31.42
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
‘Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm’
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He now spends his days speaking for enormous fees and half-heartedly heading a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time, she’s having the affair…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877873 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784877875 |
| Author: | Ian McEwan |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Vintage Earth |
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Savagely funny … Enormously entertaining
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 *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 *From an early stage, McEwan’s sumptuously textured language rested on a flair for finely engineered design * Independent *He’s green and he should be read * Observer *
About The Author
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. 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
- Nutshell
- Machines Like Me
- Lessons
Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act, and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
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