Beautiful Losers - Softcover

Leonard Cohen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007318383 ISBN 13: 9780007318384

Publisher: HarperCollins UK, 2009

Synopsis

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...

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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen?s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.

By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each character?s attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint.

About the Author:

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. He received his B.A. from McGill University and pursued graduate studies in English at Columbia University. Soon thereafter, he returned to Montreal and worked in his family’s clothing business while he continued to write poetry.

His artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published nine collections of poetry, most recently, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993), and two novels, The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). During the sixties he achieved national and international acclaim as a composer-singer. He has made seventeen albums, the latest being Dear Heather (2004). Numerous tribute albums, in many languages, have celebrated his songs.

Cohen was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991, and promoted to the rank of Companion in 2003. He received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in 1993, and has won numerous Juno Awards.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007318383
• ISBN 13: 9780007318384
• Binding: Paperback