by Leonard Cohen · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440681775
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El juego favorito» is the novel by Leonard Cohen, published by Ediciones B in hardcover, with 366 pages in Spanish.
Lawrence Breavman, only child of an old Jewish family in Montreal, grows up between the death of his father and the games of love and war, hypnotism and nights with his friend Krantz. With literary fame at university, he tries to redeem himself through manual work and flees to New York. When he meets Shell he discovers love and the sacrifices it demands.
The original in English, The Favourite Game, appeared in 1963; this Spanish edition was published in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction and literary fiction.
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer of all time.
