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The Man in the Red Coat
ISBN/EAN: 9781787332164
Umbreit-Nr.: 7244337
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 266 S.
Format in cm: 3.4 x 21.8 x 17.5
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 07.11.2019
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- <i>The Man in the Red Coat</i> is Samuel Jean Pozzi, gynaecological surgeon, womaniser and friend of everyone in Belle Epoque Paris. Beginning with a visit to London in 1885 by Pozzi, Julian Barnes constantly circles round him and his circle, taking in subjects as disparate as Dandyism, Oscar Wilde, Dreyfus, Sarah Bernhardt, political assassination, Degas, Maupassant, gynaecology, anaesthesia, Proust, Flaubert, Daudet, homosexuality, and Wagner ... <b>Written as a commentary to Britain's departure from the EU.</b>