{"product_id":"9780307399243","title":"Solar","description":"An engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel on climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing — 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. An inveterate philanderer, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Beard's professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a global scope, \u003cb\u003eSolar\u003c\/b\u003e is a comedy dealing directly with the crises of today. A story of one man's ambitions and self-deceptions, it is a startling and stylish new departure in the work of one of the world's great writers.","brand":"Ian McEwan","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42672424059040,"sku":"9780307399243","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2fed89e2-4cdc-4770-8826-9274de95a888.jpg?v=1665599565","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780307399243","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}