Leonard Cohen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvJeffrey Lewis

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The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He struggles to compete. He struggles to be more than a punchline in his own mind. He struggles, in particular, to write one song as great as the least of the great Leonard Cohen's songs. At the center of Leonard's life is Daphne. In their meeting on a Greek island, a contemporary fable of Daphne and Apollo plays out. But even with Daphne, Leonard is shadowed by the "other" Leonard Cohen, whom he fears is the real Apollo. The ancient myth haunts the fated lovers, and the “nobody” Leonard Cohen’s life becomes at once a mystery, a miracle, and a myth on its own terms. Once upon a time, Apollo fell hard for Daphne, who turned herself into a laurel tree. No less a fate awaits the protagonists of this slender yet universal novel, where art, love, and fame all fatefully intertwine.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-04
Mått138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt324 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor156
FörlagHaus Publishing
ISBN9781913368920

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Jeffrey Lewis has won a string of awards for his novels including the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction, the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for General Fiction, and the ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal for Fiction. His Bealport: A Novel of a Town was a 2019 Maine Literary Awards finalist. He has also received two Emmy Awards and been nominated twelve times for his work as a television writer and producer, most notably for Hill Street Blues. He is also the author of Berlin Cantata, The Inquisitor’s Diary, The Meritocracy Quartet, and Land of Cockaigne.

Praise for Jeffrey Lewis ‘Lewis is a master of the subtle interplay of coincidence and character, the light tripping of events that lead to a disaster that seems at once inevitable and yet shocking’ Ron Charles, Washington Post ‘Bittersweet and beautiful in equal measure ... Lewis has earned his place in the domain of contemporary American literature’ Julian Philpot, Nudge ‘His prose is fluent and beautiful with a light, witty touch and he can evoke a character in just a few lines’ Nick Curtis, Evening Standard ‘Lewis, the award-winning novelist and screenwriter (he wrote and produced Hill Street Blues for six years) is a born storyteller with a gift for creating immensely sympathetic characters’ Carol Herman, Washington Times