{"product_id":"the-man-in-the-red-coat-by-julian-barnes","title":"The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53937106944266,"sku":"9781787332164","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/BCAEB74B-C63D-4110-88A2-40BF8339A1F6.jpg?v=1792416722","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/the-man-in-the-red-coat-by-julian-barnes","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}