Too many long, uninteresting passages but I read 'em anyway because Leonard Cohen is Leonard Cohen. Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality. First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Best part was when the dildo smashed the glass out of the hotel room window and ran away into the lake after a lotta graphic sex-depicting. The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen's most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion. Leonard Cohen Written during his formative years, before he started to make it as an accomplished singer-songwriter, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s second and final novel, which is a shame. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and 'F' at the novel's start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks. No, Beautiful Losers is an engaging story that shows Cohen’s penchant for the less respectable denizens of Cohen’s Canada. Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawed - characters, 'Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. The lives of the couple and their friend, F., are bound together by love, sex and a lunatic spirit of experimentation, their relationship a tangle of jealousies.

The complexities of this three-way love, pain.

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.

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