Solar

Informationen zum Autor Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. 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 ; Machines Like Me ; and Lessons . Atonement , Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. Klappentext Paperback edition of McEwan's latest novel, an engrossing satire on climate change. Previous novel "Atonement" sold over a million copies and was made into an Oscar winning film. 'Climate-change comedy that's every bit as brilliant as its title suggests' "The Sunday Times" Zusammenfassung Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. 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

• Authors: Ian McEwan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780099549024
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954902-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Climate Change, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Satirical fiction and parodies