A Ballet of Lepers
A Novel and Stories
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.
Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before “Hallelujah” and “So Long, Marianne” and “Famous Blue Raincoat,” the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.
Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he’d settled on Greece’s Hydra island, the pieces in this collection offer startling insight into Cohen’s imagination and creative process, and explore themes that would permeate his later work, from shame…
$34.95
October 11, 2022
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and ten books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs and Book of Longing. During a recording career that spanned almost fifty years, he released fourteen studio albums, the last of which, You Want It Darker, was released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. He died on November 7, 2016.
A Ballet of Lepers
Leonard Cohen
The Flame
Leonard Cohen
Death of a Lady's Man
Leonard Cohen
Flowers for Hitler
Leonard Cohen
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Leonard Cohen
The Energy of Slaves
Leonard Cohen
Parasites of Heaven
Leonard Cohen
The Spice-Box of Earth
Leonard Cohen
Poems and Songs: Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Book of Mercy
Leonard Cohen
The Favourite Game & Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen
Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen