Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.<br /> <br /> Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawed - characters, &#39;Beautiful Losers&#39; is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor &#39;F&#39; and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and &#39;F&#39; at the novel&#39;s start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks.<br /> <br /> The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter&#39;s classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen&#39;s most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion.