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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? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Époque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was 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. The Man in the Red Coat is, at once, a fresh portrait of the Belle Époque; an illuminating look at the longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France; and a life of a man who lived passionately in the moment but whose ideas and achievements were far ahead of his time.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780525658771","publication_date":"20200218","publisher":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","slug":"the-man-in-the-red-coat","subtitle":"","title":"The Man in the Red Coat"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004150","confidence_band":"medium","label":"French Literary Criticism","score":0.7095,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT024040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"19th-Century Literary Criticism","score":0.7068,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS037060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"19th-Century History","score":0.7036,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004150","confidence_band":"medium","label":"French Literary Criticism","score":0.7095,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT024040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"19th-Century Literary Criticism","score":0.7068,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS037060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"19th-Century History","score":0.7036,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO006000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Lives in History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS013000","confidence_band":"high","label":"French History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS037060","confidence_band":"high","label":"19th-Century History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"French Literary Criticism","score":0.7095,"slug":"french-literary-criticism"},{"label":"19th-Century Literary Criticism","score":0.7068,"slug":"19th-century-literary-criticism"},{"label":"19th-Century History","score":0.7036,"slug":"19th-century-history"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in Belle Époque Paris and its cultural milieu","Good for readers interested in the life of pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["John Berger"],"book_id":"9780679737261","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780679737261.jpg?v=6ad1ab6fe60e404d","score":0.6579,"title":"A Fortunate Man","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780679737261"},{"authors":["TJ Alexander"],"book_id":"9780593686201","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780593686201.jpg?v=272065ef063ea586","score":0.6502,"title":"A Gentleman's Gentleman","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780593686201"},{"authors":["Mark Pryor"],"book_id":"9781616147099","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781616147099.jpg?v=28b4e9958953b835","score":0.6342,"title":"The Bookseller","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781616147099"},{"authors":["Émile Zola"],"book_id":"9781625584557","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781625584557.jpg?v=49ff5dbcf433791c","score":0.6333,"title":"His Masterpiece","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781625584557"},{"authors":["Henry James"],"book_id":"9780553211276","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780553211276.jpg?v=9ad0f8d26dcd8f4c","score":0.6333,"title":"The Portrait of a Lady","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780553211276"},{"authors":["Cameron Sullivan"],"book_id":"9781250362766","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250362766.jpg?v=abd3bc38cd0bb3e7","score":0.6313,"title":"The Red Winter","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250362766"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:history lovers gifts"],"label":"History","score":0.4536,"slug":"history"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:biography"],"label":"Biography","score":0.0744,"slug":"biography"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:biographies of famous people"],"label":"Biographies","score":0.0616,"slug":"biographies"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:biographies of famous people"],"label":"People","score":0.0265,"slug":"people"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Belle Époque Paris, Samuel Pozzi’s life and achievements, Britain–France exchange of ideas.","Themes: History, Biography, Biographies.","Reading lane: French Literary Criticism and 19th Century Literary Criticism."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.94,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in Belle Époque Paris and its cultural milieu","Readers interested in the life of pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi"],"themes":["Belle Époque Paris","Samuel Pozzi’s life and achievements","Britain–France exchange of ideas"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":4153,"goodreads_reviews_count":683,"quality_score":0.9393}}