Beautiful Losers

Paperback. Pub Date :2009-07-23 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s. this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle. and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawed - characters. 'Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator. his wife Edith. their domineering friend and mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha. a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint.The complexities of this three-way love. pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and 'F' at the novel's start. leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love. sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks.The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel. this is Leo...

Literature & Fiction

LEONARD COHEN

Contemporary

Blue Door

The Favourite Game

The Favourite Game. Leonard Cohen

Literary

Blue Door / Harper Collins, 20

Penguin Books, Ltd.

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.

The energy of slaves

Poetry

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Leonard Cohen: Anthology

Omnibus Press

The Concise Leonard Cohen

Arts & Photography

Music

Amsco Music

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Parasites of Heaven

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1966

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