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A man in uniform : a novel de Kate Taylor
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A man in uniform : a novel (edição: 2010)

de Kate Taylor

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:At the height of the Belle Epoque, François Dubon leads a well-ordered life in the bourgeois quarters of Paris?? eighth arrondissement. When not busy with his prosperous legal practice, he enjoys both a contented marriage to his aristocratic wife, Geneviève, and satisfying afternoon encounters with his mistress, Madeleine. He is never late for those five o??clock appointments nor for family dinner at seven??until a mysterious widow comes to his office with an unusual request.
The lady insists that only Dubon can save her innocent friend, an Army captain named Dreyfus who was convicted of spying and exiled to Devil??s Island two years earlier. Not wishing to disappoint the alluring widow, the gallant Dubon makes some perfunctory inquiries. But when he discovers the existence of a secret military file withheld from the defense during the trial, he embarks on an obsessive pursuit of justice that upends his complacent life.
Donning a borrowed military uniform, Dubon goes undercover into the murky world of counterespionage, where his erratic hours alarm his forbidding wife and make his mistress increasingly aloof. As the layers of deceit and double crosses mount, Dubon??s quixotic quest leads him into the heart of a dark conspiracy??one that endangers his own life and threatens to throw France herself into turmoil. 
Based on the infamous Dreyfus Affair and enriched with a generous dose of classic noir, A Man in Uniform is a gripping and seductive mystery set against the gilded years of late nin
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Membro:christinejoseph
Título:A man in uniform : a novel
Autores:Kate Taylor
Informação:New York : Shaye Areheart Books, 2010.
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Etiquetas:r. 2011, fiction, romance, historical fiction, Paris, France, 19th c, Canada

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Belle Epoch in Paris — Dreyfus Affair — 1893 — turn of century — quest to clean dark conspiracy — jewish — standoffish — talk @ Paris Commune —

At the height of the Belle Epoque, François Dubon leads a well-ordered life in the bourgeois quarters of Paris’ eighth arrondissement. When not busy with his prosperous legal practice, he enjoys both a contented marriage to his aristocratic wife, Geneviève, and satisfying afternoon encounters with his mistress, Madeleine. He is never late for those five o’clock appointments nor for family dinner at seven—until a mysterious widow comes to his office with an unusual request.
  christinejoseph | Sep 8, 2017 |
Perfectly enjoyable novel about the Dreyfus Affair in Belle Epoque (not so beautiful for everyone though, I guess) Paris. Very Right Bank - finance and military and salons.

Good reading for a snow day. ( )
  laurenbufferd | Nov 14, 2016 |
Some of you may be familiar with the infamous Dreyfus affair but before this month in 2014, I would have sworn I had never heard of it. Of course, since then, I’ve seen countless casual references to it so it was probably around me all the time.

Wikipedia says: “The Dreyfus affair (French: l’affaire Dreyfus) was a political scandal that divided France from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The affair is often seen as a modern and universal symbol of injustice, and remains one of the most striking examples of a complex miscarriage of justice, where a major role was played by the press and public opinion.” I might add that it seems a prime case of anti-Semitism as well.

The mystery in the event is: if Dreyfus didn’t do it, who did? Kate Taylor has written a fictional account of the affair, although from what I’ve learned since, it seems to paint a very accurate picture of the situation. It was a very enjoyable way to take in history! 4 stars ( )
  ParadisePorch | Nov 13, 2016 |
A sort of mystery novel with an unusual approach. ( )
  GeneHunter | Mar 13, 2016 |
Released today, A Man in Uniform is, according to the description offered by the publisher, Doubleday Canada:
"A seductive new novel from the author of the award-winning bestseller [b:Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen|1002174|Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen|Kate Taylor|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180130483s/1002174.jpg|987664]. Taylor returns, again to France and too a divisive time within the country.

At the height of the Belle Epoque, the bourgeois lawyer François Dubon lives a well-ordered life. He spends his days at his office, his evenings with his aristocratic wife — and his afternoons with his generous mistress. But this complacent existence is shattered when a mysterious widow pays him a call. She insists only Dubon can rescue her innocent friend, an army captain by the name of Dreyfus who has been convicted of spying. Against his better judgment, Dubon is drawn into a case that will forever alter his life.”
I read this novel quickly, over one weekend. I feel Taylor has created a compelling story using an historical event that divided the nation of France. The Dreyfus Affair began in 1894. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an innocent Jewish Officer in the French Army, was convicted on false evidence, manufactured with military approval, for a crime of high treason. He was stripped of his rank, publicly degraded and deported to the penal colony of Devil’s Island to serve a sentence of life imprisonment in total isolation and under inhumane conditions. The fight to prove his innocence lasted 12 years.

The Dreyfus Affair caused a deep rift between intellectuals not only in French society, but in all of Europe and the United States. It unleashed racial violence and led to the publication of history’s most famous call for justice, J’accuse, addressed to the President of France by [a:Emil Zola|4422974|Emil Zola|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] (in January 1898). Zola became, in the words of Anatole France, “the conscience of mankind”.

The scandal involved not only political and military scandals but also murder, deceit, corruption and treachery. Using the documented truth of the Dreyfus Affair as the launching point for her second novel, Taylor becomes a master weaver, braiding the intricacies of historical fact with her own imagination and linear storytelling. Taylor also punches up an already bountiful chain of events through the introduction of femme fatales, seduction and villainy. Characters, both real and invented, co-mingle in her mostly solid novel.

I have had a hard time creating a review for this work because, while so many elements work ~ the plot, the historical context and facts, the characters ~ I was very let down by the use of coincidence and convenience. Taylor is a gifted writer and a talented, award-winning Canadian journalist. Through research, I discovered her initial manuscript “went through three significantly different drafts that involved major plot changes… Draft number two had serious tweaking…Draft number three involved a major rewrite then a major set of cuts” before the manuscript was considered ready for publication. Learning these details made me wonder what elements were sacrificed from a story that could have achieved literary perfection to make the novel more broadly appealing?

The novel is very well-paced and enjoyable; I debated calling it a fun read; it definitely makes for a perfect “summer read”. While looking at other reviews for A Man in Uniform, the terms “a romp” and “rollicking” were encountered again and again. The novel definitely engages the reader and seems to have all of the components of a very good historical, literary mystery. For me, the novel is hard to categorize by genre. I have read many reviews that refer to the book as a ‘hardboiled mystery’, but to my understanding, these types of stories are distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex. I think there is a lot of emotion in Taylor’s novel so I am a bit dismissive of that particular classification. In the end, though, I don’t think this matters. The novel is good and I am hopeful it will be embraced and enjoyed by readers. Kate Taylor is a very good writer and the story is strong. My only issue, really, has to do with how “neat” the story was; how conveniently it climaxed and resolved.

I recommend A Man in Uniform and rate it 3.5 (out of 5) stars.
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  JooniperD | Apr 10, 2013 |
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A Man in Uniform could do with more of this sort of subtle suggestiveness. Although the story unfolds rather slowly, when Dubon begins working in the counter-espionage section, the novel takes off. The lawyer's panic at the possibility of being discovered is palpable; the reader can feel Dubon quaking in his puttees. From here, the novel begins to race with the urgency of a literate thriller....Today, the Dreyfus Affair continues to serve as a bracing reminder, in these times when Guantanamo plays the role of Devil's Island and we are all prisoners of our own fear, that we dare not have blind faith in the willingness of our leaders to defend our most cherished rights and freedoms. Taylor's engaging novel, in creating a detailed historical world, reminds us of that ever-present danger
 
Though the Dreyfus affair is a well-known historical event, Dubon’s involvement is pure fiction. The fiction is not as compelling as the fact, however. Some of the coincidences driving the plot seem unlikely, particularly the idea that Dubon could walk into a job in the French counter-espionage department and find himself assigned to the one file he’d gone there to investigate. Though chance can be an effective plot device (the accident with the cat, for example), too much of it can negatively affect a mystery’s plot....However, A Man in Uniform has moments of suspense and some good plot twists, and Taylor’s fine prose and intriguing depiction of historical Paris make for a pleasant enough read, despite the novel’s flaws.

 
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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:At the height of the Belle Epoque, François Dubon leads a well-ordered life in the bourgeois quarters of Paris?? eighth arrondissement. When not busy with his prosperous legal practice, he enjoys both a contented marriage to his aristocratic wife, Geneviève, and satisfying afternoon encounters with his mistress, Madeleine. He is never late for those five o??clock appointments nor for family dinner at seven??until a mysterious widow comes to his office with an unusual request.
The lady insists that only Dubon can save her innocent friend, an Army captain named Dreyfus who was convicted of spying and exiled to Devil??s Island two years earlier. Not wishing to disappoint the alluring widow, the gallant Dubon makes some perfunctory inquiries. But when he discovers the existence of a secret military file withheld from the defense during the trial, he embarks on an obsessive pursuit of justice that upends his complacent life.
Donning a borrowed military uniform, Dubon goes undercover into the murky world of counterespionage, where his erratic hours alarm his forbidding wife and make his mistress increasingly aloof. As the layers of deceit and double crosses mount, Dubon??s quixotic quest leads him into the heart of a dark conspiracy??one that endangers his own life and threatens to throw France herself into turmoil. 
Based on the infamous Dreyfus Affair and enriched with a generous dose of classic noir, A Man in Uniform is a gripping and seductive mystery set against the gilded years of late nin

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