num_pages: 264
description: One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.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.
language: English
title: Beautiful Losers
titlecomplete: Beautiful Losers
genres: Classics, Music, Contemporary, Novels, 20th Century, Poetry, Literature, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 6831
places: Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec)
publisher: McClelland and Stewart- Emblem Editions