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Beautiful Losers

By Leonard Cohen
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Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen is a surreal and poetic exploration of passion, religion, and identity. The story intricately weaves the lives of three central characters connected by a shared obsession with a 17th-century Mohawk saint. As these characters navigate their desires and losses, Cohen's rich prose delves into themes of love, madness, and spiritual longing.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by the blending of eroticism, spirituality, and political fervour, all while being woven into a tale of love and obsession. The narrative style, rich with poetic language, provides a profound exploration of human desire and cultural conflict, offering a read that's both provocative and immersive.

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Beautiful Losers

Combining spirituality with intense eroticism, wild and surreal humour with deadly serious intent, Beautiful Losers revolves around four characters - a husband, a wife, their ambiguous mentor, and a mythic seventeenth-century Irquois virgin.

Beautiful Losers leaps without caution between humour and tragedy, eroticism and vulgarity, deceit and the depths of true love.

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Combining spirituality with intense eroticism, wild and surreal humour with deadly serious intent, Beautiful Losers revolves around four characters - a husband, a wife, their ambiguous mentor, and a mythic seventeenth-century Iroquois virgin.

The lives of the couple and their friend, F., are bound together by love, sex, and a lunatic spirit of experimentation, their relationship a tangle of jealousies, obsessions, and affections.

Cohen's brilliant and controversial book is characterised by a voice which is quite unique – lucid, tormented, nonchalant, and wry. The result is not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex, and spirituality.

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Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen is celebrated for its explosive and brilliant style, drawing comparisons to literary giants like James Joyce and Henry Miller. The novel is a unique fusion of sexuality and mysticism, filled with humour and wit that borders on the obscene yet remains captivating. Critics highlight its blend of the mystical and profane, with an invitation to engage with its daring themes in a manner reminiscent of cultural icons like Easy Rider.

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ISBN: 9781921520402

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 December 2008

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

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Fiction General Fiction Leonard Cohen Literary Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. His collecitons The Spice-Box of Earth, Book of Mercy and the bestselling Collected Poems established his international reputation as a poet. Alongside his records he has published further collections of poetry and two novels. He lives in Los Angeles.

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