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Solar / Ian McEwan.

by McEwan, Ian.

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2010.

Middle-aged men -- Fiction.

Physicists -- Fiction.

Nobel Prize winners -- Fiction.

Marital conflict -- Fiction.

Global warming -- Prevention -- Fiction.

9780307399250 (2011 Vintage Canada trade pbk.)

9780307399243 (Alfred A. Knopf Canada hardcover)

9780385533416 (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday hardcover)

285 p. ; 24 cm.

"Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing — 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. 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 departure in the work of one of the world's great writers."--Publisher.

Psychological fiction.

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