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Solar

Ian McEwan

  • 347 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2010
  • 23 editions
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1 About this book

Solar is a novel by author Ian McEwan, first published on 18 March 2010 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House. It is a satire about a jaded Nobel-winning physicist whose dysfunctional personal life and cynical ambition see him pursuing a solar-energy based solution for climate change.

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  • Climatic changes
  • Environmental protection
  • Global warming
  • Physicists
  • Nobel Prize winners
  • Middle aged men
  • Prevention
  • Marital conflict

2 About Ian McEwan

Born 1948

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories.

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