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The Favourite Game
Leonard Cohen
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family.‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.’Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz, Breavman's tale is a distant echo of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ – injected with 1960s aesthetics and Cohen’s unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the grotesque.Semi-autobiographical, the angst and beauty of Cohen’s voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into adulthood, and the friendships, wars and lovers that are our guides.
LEONARD COHEN
THE FAVOURITE GAME
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The Borough Press
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First published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1963
This edition published by Blue Door in 2009
Copyright © Leonard Cohen 1963
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To my mother
As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill,
So my body leaves no scar
On you, nor ever will.
When wind and hawl encounter,
What remains to keep?
So you and I encounter
Then turn, then fall to sleep.
As many nights endure
Without a moon or star.
So will we endure
When one is gone and far.
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#u7193381b-ceb5-55df-bb28-d6a86ebfec1f)
Title Page (#u7745daed-aa68-540b-8dfa-74733bcc2f20)
Copyright (#uf0f36367-4252-5321-8c8d-a2b86ced6f19)
Dedication (#ua26241c8-8c91-5be1-bafa-252920e51b87)
Epigraph (#u080b065d-3dcf-5c2c-b422-2d10eac2d5b6)
Book I (#u8bb675ff-5229-50d9-aa09-618ad67d7898)
Chapter 1 (#u72995315-99b0-5507-81e6-d3a077bb27a3)
Chapter 2 (#uc32ae1df-8b52-5b1c-8109-c1d95397a817)
Chapter 3 (#u7a5958f2-ef93-51ee-add7-0af513bec838)
Chapter 4 (#u39a94378-9b8d-5e7a-898a-e78fcd09004d)
Chapter 5 (#u26b15b5b-2f0b-5df7-909c-1304ffd994b2)
Chapter 6 (#uc7837562-db66-5fae-b3e9-a5d5fb90fd68)
Chapter 7 (#ue921ba8b-761d-5e00-856a-c5c3b65ca871)
Chapter 8 (#uffedc098-b914-503b-9cd2-83a54fd0658d)
Chapter 9 (#u42d7b8ff-9bef-518b-885d-381925ab03cc)
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Chapter 11 (#u923cf818-9f0f-5c7e-86a3-283e6b4879e7)
Chapter 12 (#u81f54305-d8cb-55ed-bd1c-e6d327184691)
Chapter 13 (#u9d363beb-8c5d-5e84-8b11-ff836735d07c)
Chapter 14 (#u60cf02bf-0215-596a-a965-34392e5c5715)
Chapter 15 (#u9382a3ad-89b7-59a0-b117-b623a83a3da7)
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Chapter 27 (#u03f4487d-7688-502e-ac38-a624e625e782)
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Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Book III (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 3 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 4 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Book IV (#litres_trial_promo)
