One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy--and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors. First published...
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by C...
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne," "Sisters of Mercy," "Bird on the Wire," "Famous Blue Raincoat," and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry...
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world....
This novel revolves around four characters: a husband, a wife, their ambiguous mentor, and a mythical 17th-century Irquois virgin. Through them, the author provides an original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.
This novel revolves around four characters: a husband, a wife, their ambiguous mentor, and a mythical 17th-century Irquois virgin. Through them, the a...
Achieving literary fame as a young college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour but finally flees to New York City. Here he meets Shell and discovers the totality of love and its demands.
Achieving literary fame as a young college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour but finally flees to New York City. Here he meets Shel...
Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. This collection of his poetry was written in Montreal, Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy.
Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. This collection of his poetry was written in M...
When his fist album was released in 1967, the author was already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist, and in the United States as the writer behind Judy Collins' popular recording of 'Suzanne'. This book includes lyrics from that album, together with many of his classics, such as 'Suzanne', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The Chelsea Hotel'.
When his fist album was released in 1967, the author was already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist, and in the United States as t...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, this collection is a valedictory work.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose w...
