About the book
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.
Editions of Beautiful Losers
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780224618335
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780771022005
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780679748250
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780771092862
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780771098758
- EBook
- ISBN 9781551993089
- EBook
- ISBN 9780307778574
- EBook
- ISBN 9780771024504
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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.
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What is Beautiful Losers about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Beautiful Losers?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Where can I read a sample of Beautiful Losers?
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Beautiful Losers?
Leonard Cohen
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Beautiful Losers is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780224618335) and paperback(ISBN 9780771022005) and paperback(ISBN 9780679748250) and paperback(ISBN 9780771092862) and paperback(ISBN 9780771098758) and ebook(ISBN 9781551993089) and ebook(ISBN 9780307778574) and ebook(ISBN 9780771024504)
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