Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That's How the Light Gets In

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Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That's How the Light Gets In
Abstract
The third and final biographical volume on the life of Montreal poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, and artist Leonard Cohen (1934-2016). In this volume the author explores the last thirty years of Cohen’s life, starting with the late 1980s revival of his music career with the successful albums I’m Your Man and The Future. It covers the death of his manager, Marty Machat, and the appointment of another who would ultimately be accused of stealing more than five million dollars from Cohen. Personally, Cohen suffered the traumatic end of his long relationship with French photographer Dominique Issermann and began a public romance with actress Rebecca De Mornay. When that relationship ended in 1993, as Cohen was about to turn sixty-years old, he began a deeply spiritual phase, entering the Mount Baldy monastery under the tutelage of Zen master Joshu Sasaki Roshi—arguably, the author contends, the most important relationship in Cohen’s life. Ever the seeker, Cohen then goes to Mumbai in 1999, the first of half a dozen trips to India to investigate Advaita Vedanta Hinduism, expanding his growing fascination with spirituality. In 2008, Cohen made his triumphant return to the concert stage, and for five years traveled the world in an extraordinary final act of his life, giving almost four hundred performances over three continents. The author provides the first full chronicle of Cohen’s final months, fighting debilitating disease while still creating three new studio albums.
Volume
3
Place
Toronto, ON
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Date
2022
# of Pages
xv-475p.
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-982176-92-1
Citation
Posner, Michael. Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In. Vol. 3. Toronto, ON: Simon & Schuster Canada, 2022.
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