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The Favourite Game (New Canadian Library)
by Leonard Cohen
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771099541
- ISBN 13
- 9780771099540
- Seller
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About This Item
Tight, clean and unmarked-" In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labor but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.-Paperback, 240 pages Published May 1st, 1994 by New Canadian Library (first published 1963)
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
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12504
- Title
- The Favourite Game (New Canadian Library)
- Author
- Leonard Cohen
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0771099541
- ISBN 13
- 9780771099540
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 12 mo
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