{"id":399247,"date":"2010-03-07T02:12:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T07:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5306"},"modified":"2010-03-07T02:12:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T07:12:35","slug":"ian-mcewan-lampoons-fellow-luminaries-on-climate-trip-sunday-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/399247","title":{"rendered":"Ian McEwan lampoons fellow luminaries on climate trip, Sunday Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: Book<\/a>, Ian McEwan<\/a><\/p>\n

I just noticed this comment from an article from the Sunday Times<\/a> by Maurice Chittenden <\/p>\n

IT was meant to be a cultural response to climate change. The mission: charter a sailing boat in the Arctic and take 12 leading artists and writers to ponder on the perils of climate change in their work.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, no one seems to have explained the plot to Ian McEwan, the novelist. His new work, Solar, sends up the expedition with such glee that it has received a frosty reception from some of his fellow adventurers.<\/em><\/p>\n

So I thought I would look at the Ian McEwan<\/a> site and see what all the fuss is about, and here is what I found…..<\/p>\n

\"ImageRandom House is delighted to announce the publication of a new novel by Ian McEwan, Solar.<\/p>\n

Solar<\/a> is an engrossing and satirical novel which focuses on climate change and will be published on 18 March 2010. This story \u2013 of one man\u2019s ambitions and self-deceptions \u2013 is a stylish new work by one of the word\u2019s greatest living writers.<\/p>\n

Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing \u2013 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. When Beard\u2019s 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.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Dan Franklin, Publisher, comments: \u2018Solar is a novel about one of the most serious threats to our world \u2013 global warming \u2013 but is also very, very funny. It shows a fresh side to Ian McEwan\u2019s work, that he\u2019s a comic writer of genius.\u2019<\/p>\n

I look forward to reading this, good luck Ian<\/p>\n

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