{"product_id":"solarbooks","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, \u003ci\u003eSolar\u003c\/i\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":"McEwan, Ian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":43329729396960,"sku":"","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":46833455726816,"sku":"","price":19.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/Screenshot_2025-01-05_at_2.48.49_PM.png?v=1736102946","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/solarbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}