THE FAVOURITE GAME by Leonard Cohen ( 9780007318391 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE FAVOURITE GAME

By:

Leonard Cohen

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0007318391

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9780007318391

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Publisher:

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS

Pub. date:

1 July, 2009

Pages:

248

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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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The Borough Press

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