Various Positions :A Life of Leonard Cohen

Nadel, Ira Bruce

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Edition: Paper
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780292717329
Publisher: Univ. of Texas
Release Date: 2007-10-20

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Drawing on Cohen's own archives, Nadel plots aspects of Cohen's life--Zen, love affairs, drug use--against the evolution of his writing. He fashions a biography that is revealing but also mindful of its subject at his best. --Booklist An excellent biography, one that manages to be both thoroughly scholarly and genuinely entertaining at the same time. --Montreal Gazette An honest and sympathetic biography. --New York Times Book Review The most authoritative work yet on the 'poet laureate of pessimism.' --Library Journal