Product Description [Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Bronson Pinchot and John Lescault]One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work.As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell, two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy -- and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for three hundred years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.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. Review ''Leaves one gasping for breath as well as suitable words…Cohen is a powerful, poetic writer.'' --Dallas Times-Herald''Gorgeously written…One comes out of it having seen terrible and beautiful visions.'' --New York Times About the Author Leonard Cohen's (1934-2016) artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. During his career, Cohen published two novels and eleven books of poetry and released fourteen studio albums. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011.