Julian Barnes: The Man in the Red Coat
The Man in the Red Coat
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 06/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781529112313
- Bestellnummer: 10299615
- Umfang: 280 Seiten
- Gewicht: 446 g
- Maße: 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.6.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*
'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard
The 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**
