The Favourite Game.

COHEN, Leonard.

$500.00

Item Number: 144295

London: Black Spring Press, 1996.

Later printing of Cohen’s classic novel . Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the half-title page with his “Order of the Unified Heart” stamp below. In fine condition. Illustration by David Wood.

"Is there any Canadian novel as compelling and as good as at capturing youthful anxieties as J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye? Absolutely. . . . Leonard Cohen's first novel, The Favorite Game" (Globe & Mail). Paul Quarrington said "[t]he Favorite Game is a morally brave book, intimate and unflinching. . . . Leonard Cohen sustains the highest level of poetic craftsmanship throughout," and The Observer added "[h]e is a writer of terrific energy and color, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualizer of memorable scenes." The Calgary Albertan concluded that "[i]t is the kind of book that becomes a law unto itself, simply because there is nothing with which to compare it."