One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle & their sexual obsession & shared fascination with a mythic saint Revolving around four central
- & intrinsically flawed
- characters Beautiful Losers' is the frank & humorous story of a nameless narrator his wife Edith their domineering friend & mentor F' & Catherine Tekakwitha a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint The complexities of this three-way love pain & lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith & F' at the novel's start leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love sexuality & spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks The extraordinary & inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel this is Leonard Cohen's most critically acclaimed literary work echoing the dark poetry & wry humour of his timeless songs of loss love sex & religion Not just an extremely funny novel but an incredibly original & explicit examination of friendship sex & spirituality