Beautiful Losers
- Authors
- Cohen, Leonard
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Tags
- general , death; grief; bereavement , fiction , men's studies , family & relationships , social science , poetry
- ISBN
- 9780679748250
- Date
- 1967-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.36 MB
- Lang
- en
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.