Beautiful Losers by Cohen, Leonard - 2009

US: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This novel revolves around four characters: a husband, a wife, their ambigu ous mentor, and a mythical 17th-century Irquois virgin. Through them, the a uthor provides an original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality. 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.Revolving around four 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 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 'F' at the novel's start. leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love. sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks.The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel. this is Leo.