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From: rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russ Herman)
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Subject: Re: Leonard Cohen
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 22:11:07 EDT
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Leonard Cohen has published two prose works. His first, _The Loving Game_, is
little more than a piece of fluff. The second, which you are referring to,
is entitled _Beautiful Losers_, and is a work which is worthy of the man as
a poet. The skeleton of the book is based in part on Catherine Tekawitha,
an Iroquios convert to Catholicism who martyred herself, and had miracles
attributed to her after her death at age 24 in 1680. Simultaneously it
is about the narrator, a folklorist; his mad dead friend F., and their
shared lover Edith. It also touches tangentially on Quebec politics of the
60's. A segement of the novel was recorded on a Buffy Saint Marie album
as "God is Alive, Magic is Afoot".
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