by Ian McEwan · Jonathan Cape · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224090490
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«Solar» is Ian McEwan's satirical novel, published by Jonathan Cape in hardcover (285 pages, in English).
Michael Beard, a Nobel-winning physicist whose best work is behind him, lives off his reputation at the helm of a climate change initiative. A fortuitous accident collides his professional and personal life and gives him the chance to relaunch his career and perhaps save the planet. Dark satire on greed and self-deception.
Novel winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2010, in the comic fiction category. First edition published on March 18, 2010.
For reading groups and fans of contemporary British literary fiction interested in satire and the environment.
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".
