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Solar a novel

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was. While his fifth marriage falls apart, Michael suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to reinvigorate his career and possibly save humankind from the growing threat of gl...

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Main Author: McEwan, Ian.
Corporate Authors: Recorded Books, LLC.
Other Authors: Allam, Roger. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2010.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Middle-aged men > Fiction.
Physicists > Fiction.
Nobel Prize winners > Fiction.
Marital conflict > Fiction.
Global warming > Prevention > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was. While his fifth marriage falls apart, Michael suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to reinvigorate his career and possibly save humankind from the growing threat of global warming.
Item Description: Compact disc.
Title from container.
In container (17 cm.)
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
"Includes an exclusive interview with the author"--Container.
Physical Description: 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 9781449806774
1449806775
Author Notes: Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, England on June 21, 1948. He received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of East Anglia. He writes novels, plays, and collections of short stories including In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love, Sweet Tooth, The Children Act and Nutshell.

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 Fémina 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)

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