Beautiful Losers - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0771092865 ISBN 13 : 9780771092862

Editeur : Bantam Books

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. He received his B.A. from McGill University and pursued graduate studies in English at Columbia University. Soon thereafter, he returned to Montreal and worked in his family’s clothing business while he continued to write poetry.

His artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published nine collections of poetry, most recently, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993), and two novels, The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). During the sixties he achieved national and international acclaim as a composer-singer. He has made seventeen albums, the latest being Dear Heather (2004). Numerous tribute albums, in many languages, have celebrated his songs.

Cohen was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991, and promoted to the rank of Companion in 2003. He received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in 1993, and has won numerous Juno Awards.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Revue de presse :

“Fuses sexuality with spirituality... mystical and profane, poetic and obscene ... an invitation to play Russian roulette with a phallic pistol.”
–Kirkus Reviews

“Cohen is a writer of terrific energy and colour, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualizer of memorable scenes.”
–London Observer (U.K.)

“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

“A fantasied eroticism which is wildly funny.... An exciting book.”
–Sunday Times (U.K.)

“The literary counterpart of Hair on the stage and Easy Rider on the screen.”
–Daily Telegraph (U.K.)

“Leaves one gasping for breath as well as suitable words.... Cohen is a powerful, poetic writer.”
–Dallas Times Herald
From the Trade Paperback edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Books
• ISBN 10: 0771092865
• ISBN 13: 9780771092862
• Reliure: Poche