Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen
Defiant and uninhibited, Beautiful Losers cracks open a knotted love triangle to reveal its hapless members, united by their sexual obsessions but also by their fascination with a mythic seventeenth-century Mohawk saint.
In this rhapsodic adventure the sensualist and the saint become indistinguishable. Beautiful Losers leaps without caution between humour and tragedy, eroticism and vulgarity, deceit and the depths of true love.
Praise for Beautiful Losers:
‘Brilliant, explosive, a fountain of talent…James Joyce is not dead…he lives under the name of Cohen…writing from the point of view of Henry Miller.’
Boston Herald
‘An experimental book of sexuality and mysticism, sprinkled with his devilish sense of humour…Cohen’s writing is witty, erotic and often obscene, but never crass.’
Harper’s Bazaar
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. His artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. In the three decades since, he has published twelve books, most recently Book of Longing (2006). He has… »
