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The Man in the Red Coat (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525658771)
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xFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending--a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle ﾉpoque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. - "A pleasure to read in every way." --The New York Times Book Review
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle ﾉpoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. In this vivid tapestry of people (Henry James, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Proust, James Whistler, among many others), place, and time, we see not merely an epoch of glamour and pleasure, but, surprisingly, one of violence, prejudice, and nativism--with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. The Man in the Red Coat is, at once, a fresh portrait of the Belle ﾉpoque; an illuminating look at the longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France; and a life of a man who lived passionately in the moment but whose ideas and achievements were far ahead of his time.
Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN-10: 0525658777
ISBN-13: 9780525658771
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2019 pg. 51
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2019 pg. 104
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2019
Library Journal 12/13/2019 pg. 1
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 11
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle ﾉpoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. In this vivid tapestry of people (Henry James, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Proust, James Whistler, among many others), place, and time, we see not merely an epoch of glamour and pleasure, but, surprisingly, one of violence, prejudice, and nativism--with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. The Man in the Red Coat is, at once, a fresh portrait of the Belle ﾉpoque; an illuminating look at the longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France; and a life of a man who lived passionately in the moment but whose ideas and achievements were far ahead of his time.
Author: Julian Barnes
ISBN-10: 0525658777
ISBN-13: 9780525658771
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2019 pg. 51
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2019 pg. 104
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2019
Library Journal 12/13/2019 pg. 1
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 11
By Julian Barnes
xJULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-three previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the French Prix M馘icis and Prix Femina; the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
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