Beautiful Losers
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| Author(s) | Leonard Cohen |
| Cover artist | Suan Mitchell and Lee Friedman |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | experimental novel; literary fiction |
| Publisher | Vintage; Reissue edition (November 2, 1993) |
| Publication date | 1966 |
| Published in English |
1966 |
| Pages | 256 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0679748250 |
| OCLC Number | 28065898 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 20 |
| LC Classification | PR9199.3.C57 B4 1993 |
| Preceded by | The Favourite Game |
Beautiful Losers is a novel by Leonard Cohen. Published in 1966 by McClelland and Stewart, it was the Canadian novelist-poet's second novel, and precedes his career as a singer-songwriter. Cohen wrote the novel while living on the Greek Island of Hydra.[1]
[edit] Plot summary
At the centre of the novel are the members of a love triangle, united by their obsessions and fascination with a seventeenth-century Mohawk, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. The triangle is made up of the unnamed narrator, an authority on the vanishing A------ tribe, his wife Edith, one of the last surviving members of the tribe, and their maniacal and domineering friend, F, who may or may not exist.
[edit] Critical Response
In 1966, the CBC called Beautiful Losers "one of the most radical and extraordinary works of fiction ever published in Canada," and quoted a critic from the Boston Globe who positively compared the work with the fiction of James Joyce. However, they also quote from a negative review in which the critic Robert Fulford called Beautiful Losers "the most revolting book ever written in Canada."[2]
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