{"product_id":"beautiful-losers-leonard-cohen-paperback","title":"Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeautiful Losers\u003c\/strong\u003e is Leonard Cohen’s bold and controversial experimental novel, first published in 1966 and now regarded as a cult classic of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet largely in a claustrophobic Montreal apartment, the story follows a grieving, desire-ridden narrator as he obsessively revisits his tangled relationship with two others. Their lives become a cycle of intimacy and betrayal where memory dissolves into charged, often blasphemous fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of the novel is a 17th-century Iroquois saint and virgin, dead for 300 years yet still imagined as a mysterious figure of possible redemption for even the most degraded seekers. Through her, Cohen interweaves sexuality, spirituality, and history in startling ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in incandescent, risk-taking prose, \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Losers\u003c\/em\u003e is by turns funny, harrowing, and deeply moving. It showcases Cohen not only as a celebrated songwriter and poet, but as a novelist with a visionary, boundary-pushing imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfluential experimental novel from the 1960s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores desire, grief, faith, and memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMontreal setting with intense psychological focus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor readers of avant-garde and literary fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Just Great Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45025256866026,"sku":"CAD-15-4-ST-1-11-0679748253-82","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/1735\/7290\/files\/61YRxObOUKL.jpg?v=1744486190","url":"https:\/\/justgreatbooks.org\/products\/beautiful-losers-leonard-cohen-paperback","provider":"Just Great Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}