The favorite game.
by COHEN Leonard
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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BELIN-BELIET, France
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- Librairie & Cætera (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139884
- Title
- The favorite game.
- Author
- COHEN Leonard
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Union Générale d'Editions
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Littérature, Québec.
Terms of Sale
Librairie & Cætera
About the Seller
Librairie & Cætera
About Librairie & Cætera
Livres anciens & livres d'occasion. 75 000 références en vente.Vente en ligne depuis 1999. Envois rapides et soignés sous étuis recyclables. Frais de port dégressifs. Affranchissement philatélique. Listes thématiques sur demande.French used bookshop. Online sale since 1999. 60000 references in stock (mostly in french). Sending fast and looked after in recyclable envelope. Philatelic postage. Decreasing postal charges.Thematic lists on request.
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- Mass Market
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