Beautiful Losers

by Cohen, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780771098758
• ISBN10: 0771098758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-02-01
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd

Summary

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.

By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each character's attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint.

Author Biography

<b>Leonard Cohen</b> was born in Montreal in 1934. While attending McGill University, he formed a country-and-western trio called The Buckskin Boys and published his first book of poetry. His career spans more than forty years, during which he has produced an impressive body of work: he has published nine books of poetry and two novels, and has made eleven records, including <i>Various Positions</i>, <i>I’m Your Man</i>, and, most recently, <i>The Future</i>.<br><br>The soundtrack for Robert Altman’s film <i>McCabe and Mrs. Miller</i> comprised several of Leonard Cohen’s songs, featuring “Sisters of Mercy.” Cohen wrote, directed, and scored the 1984 video <i>I Am a Hotel</i> and wrote the lyrics for the Juno-Award-winning musical <i>Night Magic</i>.<br><br>In 1991, Leonard Cohen was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has received three Juno Awards, and was one of six recipients of the 1993 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for lifetime achievement. <br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>