Summary
Unabridged audio edition of this engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel on climate change.
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose 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 half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different—she i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846572807 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846572800 |
| Author: | Ian McEwan, Roger Allam |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Random House Audiobooks |
| Format: | Compact Disc |
| Number of Pages: | 10 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 138mm x 25mm |
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McEwan’s pure, direct prose always lends itself well to audio… Roger Allam’s studiously straight-faced reading sets the perfect tone for this subtle satire.
McEwan’s pure, direct prose always lends itself well to audio… Roger Allam’s studiously straight-faced reading sets the perfect tone for this subtle satire. * The Times *
Ian McEwan’s sardonic satire Solar, read by Roger Allen, lends itself especially well to listening, since we spend our time in the head of its loathsome antihero Michael Beard, privy to all his ignoble thoughts and criminal actions as he approaches a Hogarthian nemesis. * The Times *
Ian McEwan’s pure, direct prose always lends itself well to audio, and he was in splendid comic vein in Solar – The Times
About The Author
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and eleven previous novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and, most recently, On Chesil Beach.
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