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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: International Non-Fiction, Uncategorized, Adult
ISBN: 9781529997699
Published: December 2026
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Page Extent: 432
Format: Paperback
RRP 345.00

Stranger Music

Leonard Cohen

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Rediscover the tender, melancholic wonder of Leonard Cohen in this essential collection of his most iconic verses.
A culture-defining music icon, Leonard Cohen began his career as a poet. With a unique eye for sorrow and beauty, love and solitude, faith and longing, his voice would come to move the world.
Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross section of Cohen's most celebrated era and includes legendary songs like 'Suzanne', 'I'm Your Man' and 'Hallelujah' alongside selections from poetry collections such as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady's Man.
Daring, intimate, evocative, Stranger Music illuminates the great legacy of an artist whose work transcended genres and...

About the Author

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

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.

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