2000: Part one of SolarĪs the novel begins, the protagonist is in part taking stock of his life as he’s recently learned that his fifth wife, Patrice, is shortly leaving him. The narrative is divided into three different parts, corresponding with the years 2000, 2005, and 2009 in the life of the largely unlikeable protagonist, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard.
The film made of “First Love …” starred Giovanni Ribisi and Natasha Gregson Wagner, but was generally not memorable … honestly I’ve never been as impressed by Ribisi as I’d like to be and Wagner I identify most with her marginal role in High Fidelity (2000), a hilarious movie. The collection of stories by the same name, The Cement Garden, and The Comfort of Strangers apparently all led to the moniker “Ian Macabre.” But this categorizing only concerns his early work and doesn’t really apply to Solar or later works. I have read no other novel by McEwan, but I read the story “First Love, Last Rites,” when I was in college and was thrilled by its perversity. * McEwan’s work may also be known through the filming of Atonement (2007), starring Keira Knightly, James MacAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, and Vanessa Redgrave. Before this several of his works had been made into films (and so he became more well-known to non-literary folks), including The Cement Garden (1993) and The Comfort of Strangers (1990). Ian McEwan became well-known (to literary folks) after having published a number of novels, but most especially Amsterdam, which won the Booker Prize in 1998, which is perhaps the preeminent English-language literature prize. Ian McEwan at the 2011 Paris book festival, probably talking about Solar
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