An insider's portrait of the talented musician Leonard Cohen
Musician and singer Leonard Cohen, one of the most influential artists of the last fifty years, was a man who exuded both emotion and intelligence. This is also the reason why he was able to process basic human themes in his songs in such an extraordinary way: love, sex, faith and power. Cohen was beyond any doubt a complex personality with obvious contradictions: a strongly religious Jew, a sophisticated man and lover of women, as well as an initiated Buddhist monk.
This book is a comprehensive biography, beginning in Montreal, Cohen's birthplace, and taking him to London, the Greek island of Hydra, and 1960s New York, where the artist began his musical career. We follow his rise to the top of the music show business, his retreat into seclusion in the mid-nineties and accompany him on his world tour fifteen years later. Leonard Cohen's biography offers a balanced look at the contradictory aspects of the artist's life and a deeply insightful portrait of a talented and soulful man who continues to move people like no other.
