The man in the red coat / Julian Barnes.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.Edition: First United States editionDescription: 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780525658771
- 0525658777
- 618.10092 B 23
- RG76.P69 B37 2020
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Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | RG 76 BAR 2020 | 1 | Available | 243131 |
A rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. 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? Our guide through this world is Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life, and 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.--Adapted from publisher information.
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