“A continuing point of reference for Cohen fans.” —New York Review of Books
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- Let Us Compare Mythologies
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Read by Johnathan McClain
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Release Date: 10/23/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen’s first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.
- Let Us Compare Mythologies
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Read by Johnathan McClain
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Release Date: 10/23/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Book of Mercy
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Read by Jonathan Davis
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Release Date: 9/25/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust.
Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
- Book of Mercy
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Read by Jonathan Davis
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Release Date: 9/25/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Stranger Music
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Read by Jonathan Davis
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Release Date: 9/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
With the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen—already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist—was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singer–songwriters of the time.
Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums, Cohen gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate and consistently daring songwriter. His status as a cult artist grew and solidified, not only in North America but all across Europe; singers of enormously diverse styles recorded his songs; his influence could be charted in every new wave of recording artists that followed his emergence. In 1988 the release of his album I’m Your Man thrust him back into the mainstream spotlight—his last three albums all hit the top twenty charts in the United States, and even after his death in 2016, fans continue to appreciate the musical legacy he left behind.
Now Stranger Music brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen’s song lyrics and poetry. Stranger Music reveals the range and depth of Cohen’s work. And it is a long-overdue celebration of his extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion, and timelessness.
- Stranger Music
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Read by Jonathan Davis
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Release Date: 9/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Favorite Game
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Read by Jonathan Davis
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Release Date: 7/24/18
Formats: Digital Audy
In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal.
Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling color—a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labor but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.
- The Favorite Game
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Read by Jonathan Davis
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Release Date: 7/24/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Beautiful Losers
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Bronson Pinchot, and John Lescault
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Release Date: 7/24/18
Formats: Digital Audy
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work.
As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell, two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy—and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for three hundred years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.
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.
- Beautiful Losers
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Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Bronson Pinchot, and John Lescault
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Release Date: 7/24/18
Formats: Digital Audy