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Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer's cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches....
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In October, 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen - 39 years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end - traveled to the Sinai desert and inserted himself into the chaos and bloodshed of the Yom Kippur War. Moving around the front with a guitar and a pick-up team of local musicians, Cohen dived headlong into the midst of a global crisis and met hundreds of fighting men and women at the worst moment of their lives. His audiences heard him...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. This final volume explores the last thirty years of Leonard Cohen's life, starting with the late 1980s revival of his music career with the successful albums I'm Your Man and The Future. It covers the death of his manager, Marty Machat, and the appointment of another who would ultimately be accused of stealing more than five million...
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