Summary
Beautiful Losers leaps without caution between humour and tragedy, eroticism and vulgarity, deceit and the depths of true love. Defiant and uninhibited, Beautiful Losers cracks open a knotted love triangle to reveal its hapless members, united by their sexual obsessions but also by their fascination with a mythic seventeenth-century Mohawk saint. In this rhapsodic adventure the sensualist and the saint become indistinguishable.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921520402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192152040X |
| Author: | Leonard Cohen |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 126mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
‘Brilliant, explosive, a fountain of talent…James Joyce is not dead…he lives under the name of Cohen…writing from the point of view of Henry Miller.’
‘Brilliant, explosive, a fountain of talent…James Joyce is not dead…he lives under the name of Cohen…writing from the point of view of Henry Miller.’ * Boston Herald *
‘An experimental book of sexuality and mysticism, sprinkled with his devilish sense of humour…Cohen’s writing is witty, erotic and often obscene, but never crass.’ * Harper’s Bazaar *
‘Fuses sexuality with spirituality…mystical and profane, poetic and obscene…an invitation to play Russian roulette with a phallic pistol.’ * Kirkus Reviews *
‘A fantasied eroticism which is wildly funny…An exciting book.’ * Sunday Times *
‘The literary counterpart of Hair on the stage and Easy Rider on the screen.’ * Daily Telegraph *
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934 and published his first poetry collection in 1956. Since then he has published a number of books, including the poetry collection Let Us Compare Mythologies and the novel The Favourite Game.
Renowned as a singer and performer, Leonard has recorded a number of albums, the most famous being I’m Your Man and The Future. He lives in Los Angeles.
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