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Solar - by Ian McEwan (Paperback)

Solar - by  Ian McEwan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 deceptions, "Solar" is a startling, witty new work from the author of "Atonement."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A best-selling work of wit from the Booker Prize-winning author, <i>Solar </i>brilliantly traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist's ambitions and self-deception. <p/> Dr. Michael Beard's 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 halfheartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. Meanwhile, Michael's fifth marriage is floundering due to his incessant womanizing. When his professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Michael to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. But can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Totally gripping and entirely hilarious." --<i>The Wall Street Journal <p/></i>"Playful . . . glittering, gimlet-eyed. . . . <i>Solar </i>is balls-out, inventive, and brilliant." --<i>Elle</i> <p/>"McEwan's funniest novel yet." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>, Editors' Choice <p/>"Excellent....Discreet and witty." -<i>The New York Review of Books<br></i> <br>"Wonderful....Underlying the novel's mordant comedy and its mounting suspense....is a genuine concern for the climate, the planet, the future of man." -<i>Kansas City Star</i> <p/>"McEwan writes sentences of such witty elegance that the loss of John Updike seems a little easier to bear. . . .[He] comes to this [climate change] debate with considerabl[e] sophistication." -<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>"Precise and satisfying." -<i>People</i> <p/>"Artistically ambitious [and] seriously entertaining. . . .In Solar [McEwan has] elegantly discovered a terrible truth: that comedy is the only possible way to deal with the searing specter stalking the planet." -<i>The Wall Street Journal<br></i> <br>"McEwan's best novel ever. . . .Fans of McEwan's previous work will find much to like." -<i>The Daily Beast<br></i> <br>"Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel. . . .[His] achievement is the brilliant creation of a flawed, larger than life character who all but walks off the page to shake your hand." -<i>The Times</i> (London) <p/>"The funniest book Ian McEwan has ever written. . . .McEwan is a nearly peerless wordsmith. . . .[and] crazy smart." -<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <p/>"[With] wonderful scenes, comic set pieces. . . .If you're human, it's hilarious." -<i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i> <p/>"Deft. . . .McEwan's background research is so seamlessly displayed that scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy might wonder if he's nicked their notes. But where Solar really succeeds--beyond the dark comedy--is the author's ability to reveal the nature of the climate conundrum in the very human life of his protagonist." -<i>Time</i> <p/>"This may be his best work yet. . . .From start to finish, Ian McEwan has delivered his fastest-paced and most fastidiously researched novel." -<i>The Vancouver Sun</i> <p/>"Wonderfully rendered. . . .Thoroughly engrossing and often quite funny." -<i>The Seattle Times</i> <p/>"McEwan has shown himself to be a master of the smart, cynical tale. With Solar, though, the bar is raised. This may be the first climate-change comedy." -<i>Montreal Gazette<br></i> <br>"A pleasure to read. . . .McEwan mines [Beard's] rich and extravagant interior life for comic gold. McEwan proves himself comfortable not just with comedy and suspense but with science as well." -<i>The Salt Lake Tribune</i> <p/>"Elegant and surprising. . . .[McEwan] reaches for a lighter, more comic mode than usual. . . .The overarching plot pulls off a clinching novelistic coup." -<i>The Guardian</i> (London) <p/>"Provoking. . . .[With] carefully plotted twists. . . .It is a sign of McEwan's comic skill that he makes us sympathize with [the protagonist]. . . .Longtime readers of McEwan know how skilled he is at producing disasters from the ordinary, the way a magician pulls a bunny from a hat." -<i>Slate</i> <p/>"Charlie Chaplinesque. . . .The comedy keeps coming....[Solar] tells the story of our polluted planet more vividly than any amount of well-explained physics." -<i>Bloomberg News<br></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the novels <i>Nutshell</i>; <i>The Children Act</i>; <i>Sweet Tooth</i>; <i>Solar</i>, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; <i>On Chesil Beach</i>; <i>Saturday</i>; <i>Atonement</i>, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; <i>The Comfort of Strangers</i> and <i>Black Dogs</i>, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; <i>Amsterdam</i>, winner of the Booker Prize; and <i>The Child in Time</i>, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections <i>First Love, Last Rites</i>, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and <i>In Between the Sheets</i>.

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