The Favourite Game

'Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.'

Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz, Breavman's tale is a distant echo of Catcher in the Rye and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – injected with 1960s aesthetics and Cohen’s unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the grotesque.

Semi-autobiographical, the angst and beauty of Cohen’s voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into adulthood, and the friendships, wars and lovers that are our guides. 

Author: Leonard Cohen

Publisher: Borough

Released Date: 2009

ISBN: 9780007318391