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His most provocative and experimental work of the sixties, beautiful losers affirms leonard cohen as a visionary songwriter and novelist. A pair of crutches, a grotesque limp can ruin a stroll which i. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Despite its being steeped in canadiana, the novel, like the rest of cohen s work, is also biblical in its imagery and structure. To anyone considering reading beautiful losers, it should be noted that the language and perversity of some passages must undoubtedly be considered as highly offensive. 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 17thcentury mohawk virgin saint. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 243 pages and is available in paperback format. Visionary and obscene, profound and ridiculous, beautiful and hilarious, it is the most complete and unsettling summation of cohen s early themes and obsessions. Do you know of leonard cohen, the canadian singersongwriter and poet. Revolving around four central and intrinsically flawed characters, beautiful losers is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife edith. Beautiful losers leaps without caution between humour and tragedy, eroticism and vulgarity. His next novel, beautiful losers, is written on hydra between 1964 and 1965. Book of longing isbn 9780141027562 pdf epub leonard cohen.
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