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  • Published: 1 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784877873
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99

Solar

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Paperback
1 Nov 2022
EBook
1 Jul 2010
Audiobook
18 Mar 2010
Audio CD
3 May 2010
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VINTAGE EARTH: Change the story. Novels to transform our relationship with the natural world.

'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He now spends his days speaking for enormous fees and half-heartedly heading a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time, she's having the affair.

When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity arises for Beard to simultaneously save his marriage and the world from environmental disaster.

'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

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.
  • Published: 1 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784877873
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

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 Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Also by Ian McEwan

Atonement
What We Can Know
Lessons
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The Cockroach
Machines Like Me
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Praise for Solar

Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining

Sunday Times

From an early stage, McEwan's sumptuously textured language rested on a flair for finely engineered design

Independent

A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic

Daily Telegraph

Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel

The Times

He's green and he should be read

Observer

Wonderfully enjoyable... He shows a side to himself as a writer - a puckishness, a broadness of humour, an extravagance of style - that we haven't seen before

Sam Leith, Spectator

McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny

Mail on Sunday

A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet

Financial Times
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