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Various positions : a life of Leonard Cohen / Ira B. Nadel.
- Title
- Various positions : a life of Leonard Cohen / Ira B. Nadel.
- Author
- Nadel, Ira Bruce
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9199.3.C57 Z8 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- From the publisher: Known as the "Prince of Bummers," Leonard Cohen is a multi-talented poet, singer-songwriter, novelist, and Zen Buddhist whose career has spanned more than forty years and inspired countless other artists. In this critically acclaimed biography originally published in 1996 by Pantheon Books, Ira Nadel draws on extensive interviews with Cohen, as well as excerpts from his unpublished letters, journals, notebooks, songs, and other writings, to offer a full portrait of this enigmatic man and his artistic career. A new concluding chapter brings Cohen's story up-to-date, including the release of the albums Dear Heather, Ten New Songs, The Essential Leonard Cohen, and Blue Alert, as well as the publication of Book of Longing and the screening of the documentary film Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man.
- Series Statement
- Jewish history, life, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Jewish history, life, and culture.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 288), discography (p. 289-290) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1: Root of the chord -- 2: Life in a golden coffin -- 3: Passion without flesh -- 4: Molecules dancing in the mountains -- 5: Hopelessly Hollywood -- 6: Cocktails in the shaving kit -- 7: Black photograph -- 8: Ain't no cure for love -- 9: Trumpets and a curtain of razor blades -- 10: Tibetan desire -- 11: New scripture -- 12: Plastic algebra -- 13: My secret life -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Permissions.
- ISBN
- 9780292717329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0292717326 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2006035601
- OCLC
- 74569146
- SCSB-12105509
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library