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The Favourite Game.
de Cohen, Leonard
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London: Black Spring Press, 1996. Later printing of Cohen's classic novel . Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the half-title page with his "Order of the Unified Heart" stamp below. In fine condition. Illustration by David Wood. "Is there any Canadian novel as compelling and as good as at capturing youthful anxieties as J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye? Absolutely. . . . Leonard Cohen's first novel, The Favorite Game" (Globe & Mail). Paul Quarrington said "[t]he Favorite Game is a morally brave book, intimate and unflinching. . . . Leonard Cohen sustains the highest level of poetic craftsmanship throughout," and The Observer added "[h]e is a writer of terrific energy and color, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualizer of memorable scenes." The Calgary Albertan concluded that "[i]t is the kind of book that becomes a law unto itself, simply because there is nothing with which to compare it."
Sinopsis
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family.'Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.'Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz, Breavman's tale is a distant echo of 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' – injected with 1960s aesthetics and Cohen's unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the grotesque. Semi-autobiographical, the angst and beauty of Cohen's voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into adulthood, and the friendships, wars and lovers that are our guides.
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- Librería
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 144295
- Título
- The Favourite Game.
- Autor
- Cohen, Leonard
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Editorial
- Black Spring Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Palabras clave
- Favorite Game Signed First Edition, Leonard Cohen Signed First Edition
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