The Favorite Game
by Cohen, Leonard
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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New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Leonard Cohen and inscribed to a former owner on the title page, with his Unified Heart stamp as well. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in black and red. About Fine, with a thin strip of sunning to cloth along the top… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Favorite Game: A Novel
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The Favorite Game
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THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNDERHAMMER GUN
by LOGAN, HERSCHEL C.
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THE FAVORITE GAME
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