The Man in the Red Coat

Product Number: D6426
Released: 01 Dec, 2019
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ISBN: #9781528883221
Narrator(s): Saul Reichlin
Publisher: W F Howes
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The Man 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 with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent’s greatest portraits. The three men's lives play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. 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. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker, a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Witty, surprising and deeply researched, The Man in the Red Coat illuminates the fruitful and longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France, and makes a compelling case for keeping that exchange alive.

Author(s): Julian Barnes
Original Publish Date: 01 Dec, 2019

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Author(s): Julian Barnes
Narrator(s): Saul Reichlin
Product Number MPCD4419
Released: 01 Dec, 2019
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528883238
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Author(s): Julian Barnes
Narrator(s): Saul Reichlin
Product Number CX5548
Released: 01 Dec, 2019
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528883214

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