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Name: Solar
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Ian McEwan

📘 Solar by Ian McEwan

Michael Beard is a celebrated physicist and womanizer, whose career is built on triumph but whose personal life is barren. After winning the Nobel Prize, he remains complacent at work and barren at home. A rival’s ingenious idea forces him to confront both his personal failings and the perilous world of high‑stakes energy. "Solar" follows Beard as he navigates the thin line between scientific ambition and the darker, criminal possibilities of new energy sources.

First publish date: 2010

Genre: Humorous Fiction/Dark Humor

Authors: Ian McEwan

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