Ian McEwan
Hardcover | Pages: 287 pages Rating: 3.25 | 23416 Users | 2719 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Solar |
| ISBN: | 0385533411 (ISBN13: 9780385533416) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Michael Beard, Tom Aldous, Tarpin |
| Setting: | London, England,2005(United Kingdom) Lordsburg, New Mexico,2009(United States) Spitsbergen,2005(Norway) |
| Literary Awards: | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2010), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2012) |
Narrative Supposing Books Solar
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him, and whose fifth marriage is crumbling. However, an invitation to travel to New Mexico offers him a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity?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. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael’s personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife is having an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love with her.
When Michael’s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity?
A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one man’s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers.
Identify Regarding Books Solar
| Title | : | Solar |
| Author | : | Ian McEwan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 287 pages |
| Published | : | April 12th 2010 by Random House (first published March 18th 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Literature |
Rating Regarding Books Solar
Ratings: 3.25 From 23416 Users | 2719 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Solar
I think my first Goodreads review has to be defending this old favourite, which is absolutely in my top three Ian McEwan books and also my top twenty books ever. You're not interested in me, but when someone who reads a significant amount has a book among their all-time favourites that book must have some redeeming qualities, I find.Solar is the story of Michael Beard. Michael Beard has been characterised among reviewers and Ian McEwan fans as "obnoxious", and they say this ruins the book,The main character in Solar cant control his appetites. He eats like Jabba the Hut at a casino buffet, drinks like an alcoholic fish and chases women every chance he gets. Hes also an unorganized slob who would rather just travel or stay somewhere else rather than clean up his own living space. On top of being greedy, opportunistic, selfish and lazy, he has no regard for the future. He can rationalize any potential warning signs of health issues or unpleasant business hed rather not deal with
This is the first McEwan I have read (not sure how Ive avoided him up till now, because I have a few on my shelf waiting to be read). It was a fairly easy read, but I admit I wasnt impressed, even though McEwan writes well. It is supposed to be satire and comedy and I know the protagonist, Michael Beard is not supposed to be likeable (that bit is successful), but for me the whole did not work.The novel is in three sections set in 2000, 2005 and 2009 seeing Beard move from 53 to 62; from the
Environmental propaganda and romance so passionate that it's more fake than a Lifetime movie. What's not to love? And it's too bad really, because Ian McEwan usually doesn't confine his writing to this sort of thing. :(
ian mcewan hates you, dear reader. have no illusions. the guy flings more shit and pukes more bile in solar than g.g. allin ever dared dream. check it: mcewan dazzles in select passages, but the sum ain't always more than its parts -- which isn't necessarily a bad thing. those perfect books with clearly defined themes, succinct, streamlined yuk. you can have 'em. we like the meandering messes, shot to shit with all the baggage. but at the end of the slop we've gotta feel something, it's gotta
4.5 stars.I am not a book snob, and I will devour young adult page turners with the best of them. I also let myself eat McDonalds drive-thru on road trips, and even enjoy it. But reading McEwan is like switching gears and having a 12-course meal. Each bite thoughtful and balanced, and all part of a cohesive meal. I love that, even as a really fast reader, I have to read EVERY SINGLE sentence of his work. Because each sentence brings me that much closer to understanding his characters and how
The novel is completed. He has posted the bulky typescript to his publisher - old-fashioned, he prefers this unnecessary gesture to the casual economy of e-mailing a PDF - and now he is free of the tormented inner voice telling him to reword, rejig, rewrite, rethink. He knows it is not as good as his earlier books, which sometimes feel as though they were written by a near stranger, by a person he only half-remembers being. He has poured some of his confusion and disappointment into the novel's
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