{"product_id":"9781770417441","title":"Leonard Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. \u003ci\u003eLeonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall \u003c\/i\u003efollows the singer’s cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\u003cp\u003eWe see how six decades of radiant pessimism and a few thousand nights in hotel rooms transformed a young Jewish poet who longed to be a saint into an existentialist troubadour in love with women and a gravelly voiced crooner who taught a thousand ways of dissolving into love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\u003cp\u003eAfter more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christophe Lebold","offers":[{"title":"ECW Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-05-28","offer_id":44652634210559,"sku":"9781770417441","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d3a60812-b8f0-477c-b491-131ecc1909ee.jpg?v=1704305756","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781770417441","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}