Julian Barnes The Man in the Red Coat Paperback Book

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020A bravura performance, highly entertaining Evening StandardThe Booker Prizewinning 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 Sargents greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and freethinker a scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Pozzis 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 | Julian Barnes The Man in the Red Coat Paperback Book