The Man in the Red Coat Paperback / softback
by Julian Barnes
Paperback / softback
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping.
One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits.
The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque.
The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**
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- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:03/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781529112313
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:03/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781529112313