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　　The literary event of the season: a new novel from Ian McEwan,as surprising as it is masterful.
　　Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best workis behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormousfees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientificinstitutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backedinitiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in hisprofessional life, Michael’s personal life is another matterentirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of hisinfidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife ishaving an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love withher.
　　When Michael’s personal and professional lives begin to intersectin unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise ofan invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him toextricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate hiscareer, and very possibly save the world from environmentaldisaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up themesses of humanity?

The literary event of the season: a new novel from Ian McEwan,
as surprising as it is masterful. 
　　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. 
　　From the Hardcover edition.

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作者简介

　　IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including the novels On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; and In Between the Sheets. He lives in London.
　　From the Hardcover edition.

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　　"McEwan's background research is so seamlessly displayed thatscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — busyworking on the same topic — might wonder if he's nicked theirnotes. But where Solar really succeeds — beyond the dark comedy. ..— is the author's ability to reveal the nature of the climateconundrum in the very human life of his protagonist."
　　—TIME
　　"A comedy every bit as brilliant as its title might suggest ...Blazing with imaginative and intellectual energy, Solar is astellar performance."
　　—Sunday Times
　　“A stunningly accomplished work, possibly [McEwan’s] bestyet.”
　　—Financial Times

"McEwan's background research is so seamlessly displayed that
scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — busy
working on the same topic — might wonder if he's nicked their
notes. But where Solar really succeeds — beyond the dark comedy. .
.— is the author's ability to reveal the nature of the climate
conundrum in the very human life of his protagonist." 
　　—TIME 
　　"A comedy every bit as brilliant as its title might suggest ...
Blazing with imaginative and intellectual energy, Solar is a
stellar performance." 
　　—Sunday Times 
　　“A stunningly accomplished work, possibly [McEwan’s] best
yet.” 
　　—Financial Times 
　　“Beard is as robust and full-fleshed and ebullient a character as
McEwan has come up with. And in Solar, he shows a side to himself
as a writer — a puckishness, a broadness of humour, an extravagance
of style — that we haven’t seen before.” 
　　—The Spectator 
　　"Blending domestic satire with scientific inquiry, [Solar] nods
to concerns both personal and planetary in a tone that is at once
ironic and heartfelt. It is exquisitely and defiantly McEwan-esque.
Accept no imitations." 
　　—Mail on Sunday 
　　Praise for On Chesil Beach 
　　“Heartbreaking . . . Breathtaking . . . McEwan’s prose is as
masterly as ever, here striking a remarkably subtle balance between
detachment and sympathy, dry wit and deep compassion. It reaffirms
my conviction that no one now writing in English surpasses or even
matches McEwan’s accomplishment.” 
　　—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World 
　　“Marvelously realized . . . Wrenching, funny, smart, and hugely
gratifying in unexpected ways . . . On Chesil Beach is as merciful
to its characters as it is merciless in its heartache.” 
　　—Boston Globe 
　　“Remarkable, engaging and gripping . . . On Chesil Beach is not
only a wonderful read but also perhaps that rarest of things: a
perfect novel.” 
　　—San Francisco Chronicle 
　　“[McEwan’s] finely honed prose is a deep pleasure to
experience.” 
　　—Chicago Sun-Times 
　　“Completely absorbing . . . Infused with a bitter poignancy . . .
Intense and powerful . . . A masterpiece.” 
　　—Philadelphia Inquirer 
　　“Dazzling . . . McEwan treats [his subject] with a boundless
sympathy, one that enlists the reader even as it disguises the fact
that this seeming novel of manners is as fundamentally a horror
novel as any [he’s] written.” 
　　—Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review 
　　From the Hardcover edition.

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