BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibitedtale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexualobsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. Revolving aroundfour central -- and intrinsically flawed -- characters, 'Beautiful Losers'is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith,their domineering friend and mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love,pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and 'F' at thenovel's start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature oflove, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks. Theextraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel, this isLeonard Cohen's most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the darkpoetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex andreligion. Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly originaland explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.