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Beautiful Losers
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint. 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780679748250
- ISBN-10: 0679748253
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: November 1993
- Dimensions: 8.06 x 5.24 x 0.57 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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