Book title: Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall. The cover shows a close-up black‑and‑white photograph of Leonard Cohen seated beside a train window, lighting a cigarette. Outside the window, a soft, light‑grey pastoral landscape drifts by. The title appears in large white letters, with the subtitle in smaller black text placed on the window.

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall

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Book title: Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall. The cover shows a close-up black‑and‑white photograph of Leonard Cohen seated beside a train window, lighting a cigarette. Outside the window, a soft, light‑grey pastoral landscape drifts by. The title appears in large white letters, with the subtitle in smaller black text placed on the window.
  • Book title: Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall. The cover shows a close-up black‑and‑white photograph of Leonard Cohen seated beside a train window, lighting a cigarette. Outside the window, a soft, light‑grey pastoral landscape drifts by. The title appears in large white letters, with the subtitle in smaller black text placed on the window.
  • Book title: Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall. The cover shows a close-up black‑and‑white photograph of Leonard Cohen seated beside a train window, lighting a cigarette. Outside the window, a soft, light‑grey pastoral landscape drifts by. The title appears in large white letters, with the subtitle in smaller black text placed on the window.
Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw Angels Fall

$23.96
$23.96 $29.95

Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. Like Abraham, he moved from place to place and remained a stranger everywhere. But he never ceased doing what he did best: stepping into avalanches and reviving our hearts. From Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra, Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer’s cosmopolitan life and examines his perpetual dialogues with God, with himself, and with hotel rooms.

After more than two decades of research, Christophe Lebold, who spent time with the poet in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.

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