The Man in the Red CoatAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Thursday 3 June 2021
Description
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe 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**
You may also like ...
by
Hardback
14 Apr 2022
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€19.88
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
10 Feb 2022
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€15.15
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
03 Jun 2021
Biography: arts and entertainment
€12.86
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
05 Nov 2020
History of art
€23.40
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews