Beautiful Losers (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2009-07-23
Förlag
The Borough Press
Dimensioner
218 x 138 x 24 mm
Vikt
362 g
ISBN
9780007318384

Beautiful Losers

av Leonard Cohen
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2009-07-23
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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 novels 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-songwriters classic novel, this is Leonard Cohens most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion. Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.
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A fantasied eroticism which is wildly funnyAn exciting book. Sunday Times The literary counterpart of Hair on the stage and Easy Rider on the screen. Daily Telegraph The most vivid, fascinating and brave modern novel I have read. Michael Ondaatje Gorgeously writtenone comes out of it having seen terrible and beautiful visions. New York Times Brilliant, explosive, a fountain of talentJames Joyce is not deadhe lives under the name of Cohenwriting from the point of view of Henry Miller. Boston Herald Fuses sexuality with spiritualitymystical and profane, poetic and obscenean invitation to play Russian roulette with a phallic pistol. Kirkus Reviews Cohen assaults the reader with words, images, pyrotechnics and love. Its a raging, poetic, highly personal and eminently readable book. Toronto Star

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Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. His first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, was published in 1956 and his first novel, the semi-autobiographical The Favourite Game, in 1963. Cohen has recorded numerous albums and published several books of poetry and an experimental novel, Beautiful Losers (1966). Cohen lives in Montreal, Canada.

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