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The Man in the Red Coat
Julian Barnes
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 rational and 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, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.
The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the Belle Epoque - its heroes and villains, its writers, artists and thinkers - and a life of a man ahead of his time...
280 pages
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 3 de junho de 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9781529112313 |
| Editoras | Vintage Publishing |
| Páginas | 280 |
| Dimensões | 197 × 129 × 27 mm · 450 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
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