A broken hallelujah
Subtitle: rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen
By: Liel Leibovitz
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780393082050
Subjects: Singers; Canadian Poets; Lyricists; Biography
Other titles: Rock and roll, redemption, and the life of Leonard Cohen; Life of Leonard Cohen
Description: A meditation on the life of the Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist discusses his performing career, which began despite his crippling stage fright, to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Looking for the note"; title: The soul of Canada; title: The prophet in the library; title: Notes from a Greek isle; title: "One big diary, set to guitar music"; title: Waiting for the sun; title: "All close friends of the artist, please leave"; title: "There is a war"; title: "A secret chord"; title: "A manual for living with defeat."