The Favourite Game
€15.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780007318391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Cohen |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.294 |
| Publishing Date | 23/07/2009 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.15 |
| Tax | €0.85 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.00 |
| Availability | 14 units in external warehouse |
Product 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.