The favourite game.

By:

Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 1970.Description: 244 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0224619039
9780224619035

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Favourite game.; Online version:: Favourite game.DDC classification:

823/.91 18

LOC classification:

PR6053.O35 .C64 1970

Other classification:

HQ 4434

Summary: Life for Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal, is made up of dazzling colour - a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library Nursing Buliding	PR6053.O35 .C64 1970 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		N4228

Life for Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal, is made up of dazzling colour - a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.

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