Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen

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English

Random House
01 February 1994

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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 in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.

By: Leonard Cohen
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Vintage Books ed
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9780679748250
ISBN 10: 0679748253
Pages: 243
Publication Date: 01 February 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Beautiful Losers

"""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"