The Favourite Game Paperback / softback
by Leonard Cohen
Paperback / softback
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. ‘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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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:23/07/2009
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- ISBN:9780007318391
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:23/07/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780007318391