Libra
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Even though I had a difficult time with this book and trying to understand it and piece it together, I finished it this morning and am glad I did.
It is a bizzare , vulgar, explicit(Rated R) book, among some history on Montreal, Quebec,the French and English problems in the 60's and 70's(that really have not ended, but are not so vivid now),and also a fascination with Catherine Tekawitha ,the daughter of a Mohawk warrior.
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Dubbed "an unstructured, free-form, irreverent novel" by LJ 's reviewer, Beautiful Losers seemed too strange even for the Sixties. Nevertheless, the book went on to become a cult hit, selling more than 400,000 copies before going out of print. The novel is now being reissued to coincide with the upcoming publication of Cohen's Stranger Music. With its gay relationships, homages to Canadian Native Americans, and search for the meaning of life, this may now find wider acceptance in the mainstream.
Product Description
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.
By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each character’s attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint.
It is a bizzare , vulgar, explicit(Rated R) book, among some history on Montreal, Quebec,the French and English problems in the 60's and 70's(that really have not ended, but are not so vivid now),and also a fascination with Catherine Tekawitha ,the daughter of a Mohawk warrior.
This is a quote from amazon:
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Dubbed "an unstructured, free-form, irreverent novel" by LJ 's reviewer, Beautiful Losers seemed too strange even for the Sixties. Nevertheless, the book went on to become a cult hit, selling more than 400,000 copies before going out of print. The novel is now being reissued to coincide with the upcoming publication of Cohen's Stranger Music. With its gay relationships, homages to Canadian Native Americans, and search for the meaning of life, this may now find wider acceptance in the mainstream.
Product Description
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.
By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each character’s attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint.