Solar

Mc Ewan, Ian

ISBN 10: 0385533411 / ISBN 13: 9780385533416

Published by Nan a Talese/Doubleday, N. Y., 2010

About this Item

Very fine, clean, crisp new and unread stated first edition in the US with the full number line including the 1, SIGNED by the author with his name only to the title page, Bound in sharp black boards, the spine stamped in gold titles, the fine dust jacket protected in a new, clear Brodart cover. McEwan has received numerous literary awards including the Booker. In this novel he hones his superior writing skills with satire in the story of a Nobel prize-winning physicist and womanizer who has a chance to save himself and better the world, but will he really do that?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Solar
• Publisher: Nan a Talese/Doubleday, N. Y.
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385533411
• ISBN 13: 9780385533416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition In U. S.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: SIGNED

About this title

Synopsis

The literary event of the season: a new novel from Ian McEwan, as surprising as it is masterful.

Michael Beard is a 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. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael’s personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife is having an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love with her.

When Michael’s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity?

A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one man’s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers.

About the Author

IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including the novels On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; and In Between the Sheets. He lives in London.