The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224619039
- ISBN 13
- 9780224619035
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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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- Bookseller
- Book Haven (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1436989
- Title
- The Favourite Game
- Author
- Leonard Cohen
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224619039
- ISBN 13
- 9780224619035
- Publisher
- London, Jonathan Cape 1970 Hardback
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1970
- Pages
- 244
- Keywords
- Fiction
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