The Man in the Red Coat is a book by Julian Barnes.

[1] The book concerns Samuel Jean de Pozzi, a French surgeon and pioneer in the field of gynaecology whose portrait in a red coat John Singer Sargent painted,[2] and other people of Belle Époque Paris in the arts, including Robert de Montesquiou, Prince Edmond de Polignac, Jean Lorrain, Sarah Bernhardt, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde.

According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on twenty-eight critic reviews with eight being "rave" and twenty being "positive".

[3] In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.11 out of 5) from the site which was based on sixteen critic reviews.

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