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Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099549024
SKU
KJE0003387
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Solar
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more