{"product_id":"9781529112313","title":"The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes","description":"\u003cp\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe 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, 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. 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. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julian Barnes","offers":[{"title":"280 pages \/ 03\/06\/2021 \/ c 1800 to c 1900","offer_id":57157903057271,"sku":"9781529112313","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781529112313.jpg?v=1780994937","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781529112313","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}