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Solar

Solar

Ian McEwan

Solar is a novel by author Ian McEwan, first published on 18 March 2010 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House. It is a satire about a jaded Nobel-winning physicist whose dysfunctional personal life and cynical ambition see him pursuing a solar-energy based solution for climate change.

“Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.”

Ian McEwan book Solar

Page 149. (A line from Michael Beard's speech at the Savoy Hotel, London.)
Solar (2010)

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