Baltipink reviewed Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
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3 stars
This book is twisted and disturbing, but I kinda liked it. And I suspect that it is going to be one of those books that grows on me.
Paperback, 243 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 1993 by Vintage Books.
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.
This book is twisted and disturbing, but I kinda liked it. And I suspect that it is going to be one of those books that grows on me.