The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes - Kirjat - Vintage Publishing - 9781529112313 - torstai 3. kesäkuuta 2021
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The Man in the Red Coat

Julian Barnes

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The Man in the Red Coat

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

Media Kirjat     Paperback Book   (Kirja pehmeillä kansilla ja liimatulla selällä)
Julkaisupäivämäärä torstai 3. kesäkuuta 2021
ISBN13 9781529112313
Tuottaja Vintage Publishing
Sivujen määrä 280
Mitta 197 × 129 × 27 mm   ·   448 g
Kieli English  

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