Solar: Ian Mcewan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099549026 ISBN 13: 9780099549024

Verlag: Random House, 1900

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Críticas:

"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 and compellingly written novel" (The Times)

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Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction

'A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet...both funny and serious, light and dark, morally engaged and ironically detached' Financial Times

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. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, this is a story of one man's greed and self-deception; a darkly satirical novel showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time.

'Solar is, by some distance, the funniest book McEwan has ever written. It continues a fine tradition of English drollery, pioneered by Kingsley Amis, in which the high ideals of the mind are constantly sabotaged by the low instincts of the body: the academic with his trousers down' Anthony Quinn, Mail on Sunday

'McEwan attempts the difficult trick of blending raucous comedy with science and politics. I think he pulls it off magnificently' Nick Cohen, Observer

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• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0099549026
• ISBN 13: 9780099549024
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304