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- ISBN 9781914979156
- Weight: 147g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Haus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dear Leonard Cohen,
Could I ask you something, just between us? How was it that you never changed your name? You could have been Lawrence Cole. You could have been Lindsay Kohl, or Lionel Cone...
So begins the story of an everyman Leonard Cohen, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He struggles to compete. He struggles to be more than a punchline in his own mind. He struggles, in particular, to write one song as great as the least of the great Leonard Cohen's songs.
At the center of Leonard's life is Daphne. In their meeting on a Greek island, a contemporary fable of Daphne and Apollo plays out. But even with her, Leonard is shadowed by the "other" Leonard Cohen. The ancient myth haunts the fated lovers of this novel, in which art, love, and fame all fatefully intertwine.
Jeffrey Lewis has won a string of awards for his novels including the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction, the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for General Fiction, and the ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal for Fiction. His Bealport: A Novel of a Town was a 2019 Maine Literary Awards finalist. He has also received two Emmy Awards and been nominated twelve times for his work as a television writer and producer, most notably for Hill Street Blues. He is also the author of Berlin Cantata, The Inquisitor’s Diary, The Meritocracy Quartet, and Land of Cockaigne.
