Leonard Cohen Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Favorite Game (1963)
  2. Beautiful Losers (1966)

Omnibus

  1. Favourite Game / Beautiful Losers (2009)

Collections

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Omnibus Book Covers

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Leonard Cohen Books Overview

The Favorite Game

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour a series of motion pictures fed through a high speed projector: the half understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make. From the Paperback edition.

Beautiful Losers

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.

Favourite Game / Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen’s two classic novels now available together in this collector s edition. This beautifully designed collector s hardcover edition brings together Leonard Cohen s acclaimed novels in a single volume. Published originally in 1963 and 1966, these novels have had a recent resurgence of popularity and sales around the world. In his unforgettable debut novel, The Favourite Game, Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Beautiful Losers is Cohen s classic novel of the sixties. Funny, harrowing, and deeply moving, it is his most defiant and uninhibited work.

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