Beautiful Losers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A novel of shattering intensity, Beautiful Losers plunges the reader into a fractured, hallucinatory world where an unnamed narrator mourns the loss of his wife, Catherine Tekakwitha — a 17th-century Iroquois saint — while obsessing over the enigmatic and anarchic influence of his friend, known only as F. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Quebec separatism and Indigenous Canadian history, this is a story of desire, faith, identity, and the desperate search for transcendence in a world stripped of certainty. Leonard Cohen — celebrated poet, songwriter, and visionary — here deploys a prose style that is simultaneously lyrical and savage, blending religious iconography, erotic confession, and political rage into a work of extraordinary ambition. Widely regarded as one of the most daring Canadian novels of the 20th century, Beautiful Losers challenges every convention of narrative fiction, pushing language itself to its breaking point. For those willing to surrender to its torrential current, it promises a reading experience unlike any other — a communion with the beautiful and the damned that lingers long after the final page.
Author: Leonard Cohen
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A novel of shattering intensity, Beautiful Losers plunges the reader into a fractured, hallucinatory world where an unnamed narrator mourns the loss of his wife, Catherine Tekakwitha — a 17th-century Iroquois saint — while obsessing over the enigmatic and anarchic influence of his friend, known only as F. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Quebec separatism and Indigenous Canadian history, this is a story of desire, faith, identity, and the desperate search for transcendence in a world stripped of certainty. Leonard Cohen — celebrated poet, songwriter, and visionary — here deploys a prose style that is simultaneously lyrical and savage, blending religious iconography, erotic confession, and political rage into a work of extraordinary ambition. Widely regarded as one of the most daring Canadian novels of the 20th century, Beautiful Losers challenges every convention of narrative fiction, pushing language itself to its breaking point. For those willing to surrender to its torrential current, it promises a reading experience unlike any other — a communion with the beautiful and the damned that lingers long after the final page.