COHEN, Leonard. Beautful Losers. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1970.
8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with pictorial dust jacket; pp. 243; jacket with chip to head of spine, near fine.
First UK edition.
"James Joyce is not dead" declared The New York Times upon the publication of Beautiful Losers in 1966. The novel was written during two prolonged sabbaticals on the island of Hydra and is structured into three books, each with its own narrator. Beautiful Losers has been hailed as early landmark of postmodernism in Canadian literature.
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