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Beautiful Losers
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Author:
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Cohen, Leonard
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Set In . . .
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North America, Canada, Quebec, Montreal
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Genre:
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Fiction
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Time Frame:
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Various
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Published:
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1966
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Description:
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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.
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