This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. ?Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.? Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz, Breavman's tale is a distant echo of ?Catcher in the Rye? and ?Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? ? injected with 1960s aesthetics and Cohen?s unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty...
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2012-06-07
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