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In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhoodof Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal.

Life for Breavmanis made up of dazzling colour—a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speedprojector: 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 withhypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and , achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance throughmanual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodiesof 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 thesacrifices he must make.