The Favorite Game - Leonard Cohen

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age Counterculture

Written by Leonard Cohen
Read by Jonathan Davis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling color - a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labor but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.

July 24 2018
7 hrs and 45 mins

(I noticed that the recording cuts off the name Wordsworth at the beginning of Chapter 3, so text is included to allay confusion in case of any other error.)