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The Man in the Red Coat

Door Julian Barnes

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#419529-VH8
Titel	The Man in the Red Coat
Auteur	Barnes, Julian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Jonathan Cape
Jaar van uitgave	2019
ISBN10	1787332160
ISBN13	9781787332164
Taal	Nederlands
Beschrijving	Original silver lettered boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, ribbon marker, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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. SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOKS AWARDS 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019 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 commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a rational and 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 p... (Lees verder)leasure 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. The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the Belle Epoque - its heroes and villains, its writers, artists and thinkers - and a life of a man ahead of his time. Witty, surprising and deeply researched, the new book from Julian Barnes illuminates the fruitful and longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France, and makes a compelling case for keeping that exchange alive. 'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening Standard
Pagina's	265
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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