The Favourite Game.

COHEN, Leonard.

Item Number: 1866

London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.

First edition, preceding both the Canadian and American publication. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Leonard Cohen. Fine in an excellent dust jacket with light toning to the spine.

"Is there any Canadian novel as compelling and as good as at capturing youthful anxieties as J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye? Absolutely. . . . Leonard Cohen's first novel, The Favorite Game" (Globe & Mail). Paul Quarrington said "[t]he Favorite Game is a morally brave book, intimate and unflinching. . . . Leonard Cohen sustains the highest level of poetic craftsmanship throughout," and The Observer added "[h]e is a writer of terrific energy and color, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualizer of memorable scenes." The Calgary Albertan concluded that "[i]t is the kind of book that becomes a law unto itself, simply because there is nothing with which to compare it."