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Award-winning author Barnes (The Sense of an Ending) aims to tell the life story of Samuel Pozzi (1846–1918), a French surgeon who transformed gynecology and wrote an internationally renowned textbook on the emerging field. Because of the social circles in which Pozzi traveled, he became the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's most famous portraits—hence this book's title. This is much more than a biography, ho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More