ISBN: 9780947493882
Title: Book of Cohen: David Cohen on Leonard Cohen
Author: COHEN DAVID

This is a story of two Cohens, the famous singer and not- so-famous lifelong New Zealand fan. It spans several generations and locations, from the refugee waves of Europe of the 19th century to suburban NZ in the late 1970s, late-night Montreal and New York and the menacing frontiers of the Middle East.
Part memoir, part travelogue, part biography, part
philosophical reflection, Book of Cohen is as stimulating,
eclectic and surprising as its subject, full of sharp-eyed
observation and hard-won wisdom. You will enjoy this book,
even its gaps and silences. After all, as the man himself might
say, that’s how the light gets in.
— Jonathan Freedland
From the Hutt to Tel Aviv, music writing to memoir, David
Cohen takes an intimate, erudite voyage around that other
Cohen, the immortal Leonard. Questions of identity —
Jewishness, lost fathers — are at the heart, the gravelly
undertow of well-earned weltschmerz always backlit by both
Cohens’ dry-as-desert-dust humour.
— Diana Wichtel

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00