Ian McEwan — Solar

London, Jonathan Cape, 2010 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of Ian McEwan's comical satire novel, Solar, in the original slipcase. A first edition, first printing, limited edition copy of Ian McEwan's comic novel, Solar, signed by the author, in the original cloth binding and slipcase.Limited to one thousand copies, this being hand-numbered three-hundred and seventy-eight. Solar follows the story of Michael Beard, a Nobel-winning physicist with a dysfunctional personal life and cynical attitude who pursues a solution for climate change through solar-energy. It was awarded the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2010, an award specifically for comic writing. While the novel is a work of fiction, it is clearly influenced by real science and history.Ian McEwan is a multi-award winning fiction author and screenwriter with over twenty successful published works, including Atonement (2001), Amsterdam (1998) and On Chesil Beach (2007).This signed copy includes the original slipcase accompanying this limited edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original slipcase. Externally, excellent. Slipcase excellent. Very light handling marks to boards and slipcase on occasion. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Signed by the author. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .