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The Man in the Red Coat
Julian Barnes
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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
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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