Description
| Product ID: | 9781529112313 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | LV |
| Title: | The Man in the Red Coat |
| Authors: | Author: Julian Barnes |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: arts & entertainment, Biography: historical, political and military, Social and cultural history, International relations, Biography: historical, political & military, Social & cultural history, International relations, London, Greater London, France, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating *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** *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-03 |