Solar

By Ian McEwan

Solar - Ian McEwan
  • Release Date: 2010-03-30
  • Genre: Family Fiction & Literature
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 64 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception.

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?

Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.

Reviews

  • Solar Energy with a Twist

    5
    By One Suitcase
    Who would have thought reading about an over-sexed Nobel Prize winning physicist could be so much fun. Had no idea McEwan could be this hilarious.
  • Subpar for Ian

    3
    By Emmet Aloysius
    OK but not up to his usual high standards. Hard to keep up with Black Dogs, Saturday, Amsterdam, etc....EAF