Solar a novel
When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard'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 h...
Main Author: | McEwan, Ian. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
c2010.
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Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Summary: |
When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard'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. |
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Physical Description: |
287 p. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780385533416 (alk. paper) 0385533411 (alk. paper) |
Author Notes: |
He has won numerous awards including the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites; the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award and the 1993 Prix FĂ©mina Etranger for The Child in Time; the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction for Amserdam; the 2002 W. H. Smith Literary Award, the 2003 National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, the 2003 Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, and the 2004 Santiago Prize for the European Novel for Atonement; and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday. (Bowker Author Biography) |