Beautiful Losers Summary
Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers Summary

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen is a stream-of-consciousness story of an unnamed folklorist living in a psycho-sexual hell. Having lost his wife and male lover, he turns to the history of an Iroquois saint for his salvation. The novel is a depiction of spiritual yearning in the orgiastic humanistic days of the mid-sixties.

In the first book, The History of Them All, the nameless narrator researches Catherine Tekakwitha, a nearly-sainted Iroquois...

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