{"product_id":"beautiful-losers-9780679748250","title":"Beautiful Losers","description":"One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Losers\u003c\/i\u003e is Leonard Cohen' s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy--and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1966, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Losers \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e's artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLet Us Compare Mythologies\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Favourite Gam\u003c\/i\u003ee and \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Losers\u003c\/i\u003e, and eleven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eStranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook of Longing, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLeonard Cohen: Poems and Songs\u003c\/i\u003e. He has to date released fourteen studio albums, the most recent of which, \u003ci\u003eYou Want It Darker, \u003c\/i\u003ewas released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. Mr. Cohen died in 2016.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627567321362,"sku":"9780679748250","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8be46d0d-6759-44f0-9ecf-d0eac34f492a.jpg?v=1732676423","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beautiful-losers-9780679748250","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}