One of the best-known experimental novels of the\n1960s,_Beautiful Losers_is Cohen’ s most defiant and\nuninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a\nlove triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their\nfascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk\nsaint.

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By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty,_Beautiful\nLosers_explores each character’s attainment of a state of\nself-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished\nfrom the saint.

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From the Trade Paperback edition.

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