Beautiful Losers - Softcover

Cohen, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771098758 ISBN 13: 9780771098758

Publisher: New Canadian Library, 1991

Synopsis

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 this title

Review:

"Gorgeously written. . . . One comes out of it having seen terrible and beautiful visions." --The New York Times

"Leaves one gasping for breath as well as suitable words. . . . Cohen is a powerful, poetic writer." --Dallas Times-Herald

"Brilliant, explosive, a fountain of talent. . . . James Joyce is not dead. . . . He lives in Montreal under the name of Cohen. . . writing from the point of view of Henry Miller." --Boston Sunday Herald

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Canadian Library
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0771098758
• ISBN 13: 9780771098758
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 280