Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
by Nadel, Ira B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679442359
- ISBN 13
- 9780679442356
- Seller
-
Kent, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Pantheon, NY, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/Fine. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; Folk Music; ISBN: 0679442359. ISBN/EAN: 9780679442356. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 817. . 9780679442356
Synopsis
Ira B. Nadel has written several other books, including a short biography of Cohen, as well as Biography: Fiction and Fact & Form and Joyce and the Jews . Nadel comments on books for CBC Radio and teaches at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he is a professor of English.
Reviews
On Nov 9 2010, Atarhad said:
Nadel's biography is highly readable but a tad vague. For instance the section where he describes "Who By Fire" as derived from the song in the Rosh Hashanah musaf. Well, given as it is a virtual transcription of the prayer, which he could easily have read a translation of, that makes me wonder how many other things he's vague on. On the other hand, it clips along nicely and he seems to have some affection for his subject - always an advantage in a biographer - without being in any way dazzled by him. Sort of a shaking his head quality appears from time to time as he seems bemused by Cohen's "shameless" pursuit of female journalists and any other beauty that catches his eye. Fine if you're interested, in short, but there is bound to be a more substantial book some time if the subject's fame continues to grow, as it now is still doing. There are countless books on Dylan, and while I do not think LC is as central to the culture as Dylan - I think of them as King David and Jeremiah - I do think this book leaves room for a thoughtful critical biography to be done.
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- ArchersBooks.com (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 817
- Title
- Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
- Author
- Nadel, Ira B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Printed Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679442359
- ISBN 13
- 9780679442356
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- BZDB185 Music; Folk Music; ISBN: 0679442359 EAN: 9780679442356 Nadel, Ira B. Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
- Bookseller catalogs
- Folk Music;
Terms of Sale
ArchersBooks.com
Mail order only. All first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Ins extra and recommended. Books will be shipped on receipt of payment (US funds/accounts only) and may be reserved for ten days. Books returnable within 2 weeks of delivery.
About the Seller
ArchersBooks.com
Biblio member since 2005
Kent, Ohio
About ArchersBooks.com
I have been a bookseller since 1986 and closed my shop in 2001 to concentrate on mail order and do some writing. My stock includes a large selection of books on Baseball, True Crime, Ohioana, Botany, Literature, and Music. And I've cowritten two books: Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues with Frazier Robinson (1999) and Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler with Mark Dawidziak (2011, foreword by Ken Burns). Mark Dawidziak and I have also written introductions to six reissues of Tully's books: Circus Parade (foreword by Harvey Pekar), Shanty Irish (foreword by John Sayles), The Bruiser (foreword by Gerald Early), Blood on the Moon, Shadows of Men, and Tully's breakthrough book, Beggars of Life.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: