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Solar


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Climate Fiction,
  • Satirical Fiction,
  • Midlife Crisis
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  • Scientist antiheroes whose personal flaws drive the story
  • Darkly comic takes on climate change and ambition
  • Watching brilliant minds unravel their own lives
Publisher Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception.

Dr. Michael Beard’s 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 halfheartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming.

Meanwhile, Michael’s fifth marriage is floundering due to his incessant womanizing. When his professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Michael to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster.

But can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity?

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