In his latest book, Julian Barnes dives into the glittering life of Samuel Jean Pozzi, a celebrated French gynecologist who palled around with... Want a great antidote to distress over current events?

Was it truly beautiful, the Belle Epoque, as the period in France, and to some extent in England, between the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and World War I is known. In his book, “The Man in the Red ...

Inspired by seeing John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Samuel Jean Pozzi at the National Gallery in London, Booker Prize–winner Barnes (The Only Story) investigates the life of the 19th-century French ...

In The Man in the Red Coat, Barnes brings to life ­another person from the past. His subject is the pioneering surgeon Samuel Jean Pozzi, who acquired celebrity status and professional prominence in ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Leo Damrosch THE MAN IN THE RED COAT By Julian Barnes Biographers usually tell the life story of ...

This more-ish book is best, if inadequately, described as a biography of Samuel-Jean Pozzi, the French gynaecologist. Pozzi is well known as the subject of an 1881 painting, though not to the novelist ...

Want a great antidote to distress over current events? Julian Barnes found it in his immersive plunge into the incredible flowering of sexual and artistic expression in Belle Epoque France, and into ...