{"product_id":"the-favorite-game-isbn-9781400033621","title":"The Favorite Game","description":"In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood  of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife for Breavman  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.\"He is a writer of terrific energy and color, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualizer of memorable scenes.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Is there any Canadian novel as compelling and as good as at capturing youthful anxieties as J. D. Salinger’s \u003cb\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/b\u003e? Absolutely. . . . Leonard Cohen’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Favorite Game\u003c\/i\u003e.” –\u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003cb\u003eThe Favorite Game\u003c\/b\u003e is a morally brave book, intimate and unflinching. . . . Leonard Cohen sustains the highest level of poetic craftsmanship throughout.” –Paul Quarrington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is the kind of book that becomes a law unto itself, simply because there is nothing with which to compare it.” –\u003ci\u003eCalgary Albertan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLet Us Compare Mythologies\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Favourite Gam\u003c\/i\u003ee and \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Losers\u003c\/i\u003e, and eleven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eStranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook of Longing,\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLeonard Cohen: Poems and Songs\u003c\/i\u003e. He has to date released fourteen studio albums, the most recent of which, \u003ci\u003eYou Want It Darker, \u003c\/i\u003ewas released in 2016. 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. Mr. Cohen died in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302737072357,"sku":"NP9781400033621","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400033621.jpg?v=1767739305","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-favorite-game-isbn-9781400033621","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}