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Visionary and obscene, profound and ridiculous, beautiful and hilarious, it is the most complete and unsettling summation of cohens early themes and obsessions. As a means to an end, such as social change, workingclass culture has been a resounding flop, but if workingclass culture is an end in itself, it is selfvalidating. Beautiful losers by leonard cohen overdrive rakuten overdrive. Parasites of heaven ebook by leonard cohen 9780771024597. The novel follows a few months in the lives of shira, jean and sebastian, a very unlikely threesome who are drawn together by. Free download or read online beautiful losers pdf epub book. One of the bestknown 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 novel is a depiction of spiritual yearning in the orgiastic humanistic days of the midsixties. Selected poems and songs, book of longing, and leonard cohen. Leonard cohens 1966 beautiful losers is ambitiously filthy. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 243 pages and is available in paperback format. Beautiful losers quotes by leonard cohen goodreads.
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