First US edition of this second (and last) novel from the acclaimed musician, writer, and poet.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $350.00
"Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness."
Mystical, nonlinear, and sexual in its approach, Cohen's final novel was polarizing when released, but has only grown in esteem and influence since, a cult book "credited with introducing postmodernism to Canadian fiction and [...] very much entered [into] the literary canon" (Goldie 92).
Read more: Goldie, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction.
First printing. New York: The Viking Press, (1966). 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original full black cloth. In original unclipped ($5.75) pictorial jacket. 244 pages. Minor edgewear to jacket, touches of toning to spine. Spot of soil, rubbing to cloth. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Overall, bright and sound.
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