The Man in the Red Coat av Julian Barnes

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<p><b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*</b><br><br><b>''A bravura performance, highly entertaining'' <i>Evening Standard</i></b><br><br><b>The Booker Prize-winning author of <i>The Sense of an Ending </i>takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br>