Beautiful Losers

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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 Irquois 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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'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 'An experimental book of sexuality and mysticism, sprinkled with his devilish sense of humour...Cohen's writing is witty, erotic and often obscene, but never crass.' Harper's Bazaar 'Fuses sexuality with spirituality...mystical and profane, poetic and obscene...an invitation to play Russian roulette with a phallic pistol.' Kirkus Reviews 'A fantasied eroticism which is wildly funny...An exciting book.' Sunday Times 'The literary counterpart of Hair on the stage and Easy Rider on the screen.' Daily Telegraph

Author Bio

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.