TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Leonard
TI  - The favourite game
SN  - 0224619039
AV  - PR6053.O35 .C64 1970
U1  - 823/.91 18
PY  - 1970///
CY  - London
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - Jewish families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Young men
KW  - Authors
KW  - fast
KW  - Montréal (Québec)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Québec
KW  - Montréal
N2  - 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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