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    The Man in the Red Coat

    Written by Julian Barnes

    Narrated by Saul Reichlin

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    Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2020

    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.

    The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the French 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateFeb 20, 2020
    ISBN9781004003129
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    The Man in the Red Coat
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    Julian Barnes

    Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946) se educó en Londres y Oxford. Está considerado como una de las mayores revelaciones de la narrativa inglesa de las últimas décadas. Entre muchos otros galardones, ha recibio el premio E.M. Forster de la American Academy of Arts and Letters, el William Shakespeare de la Fundación FvS de Hamburgo y es Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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    • 4/5
      This is a book for “initiés”. I doubt that semeone ignoring the caracters that surrounded those three main caracters in the book is able to appreciate the kind of gossip that permeares this chronicle. As a francophile, I enjoyed jt very much!
    • 2/5
      I understand why Barnes' mother is known for criticizing his work as a relentless assault of filth. I'm not talking about pornography but just constant, disconnected, piling on of details about various known figures that are "titillatingly" unflattering. What a meander through anecdotal filth.