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FROM: "Andrea Ito" <[removed]@clarington-library.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/26/04, 2:00 PM

Hi All,

We have a patron who is looking for a read-a-like for Leonard Cohen's
Beautiful Losers and our staff is having problems coming up with something.
The patron would prefer Canadian titles but any suggestion would be welcome
(we are desperate!).

Thanks!
Andrea Ito
Clarington Public Library

FROM: "Warner, Deb" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/27/04, 1:30 PM

Funny you should mention that title, I was recently looking to re-read it
and checking to see if our library had it (we don't). It's been over 15
years since I read it and I remember very little except the Native American
saint(?) Catherine Tuckewitha (?), a pair of lovers and that rather mordant
sense of humor that typifies Cohen.
What was it the patron liked? Native American wrier Sherman Alexie and
Native Canadian writer Thomas King are both very enjoyable, and there is
Margaret Craven's I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME, which I believe takes place
in Canada. Would anything by Robertson Davies suit? He IS Canadian and he
might appeal to a fan of Cohen's, both for his distinctive style and the
rather bizarre relationships he can conjure.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Ito [[removed]@clarington-library.on.ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:54 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Read-a-likes for Beautiful Losers

Hi All,

We have a patron who is looking for a read-a-like for Leonard Cohen's
Beautiful Losers and our staff is having problems coming up with something.
The patron would prefer Canadian titles but any suggestion would be welcome
(we are desperate!).

Thanks!
Andrea Ito
Clarington Public Library

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/27/04, 5:16 PM

Wow, man, I always thought that Beautiful Losers
was really OUT there, man, like spinning in the
bileful belly of the great capitalist BEAST with
Pynchon and Delillo, man, like longing to be out
on the road with Keroac and Kesey, or Pirsig,
even - but trapped in the dharmic fleshiness of
Henry Miller, howling in the night with Ginsburg,
shooting a daffy man rocket in the sky with
Bukowski, Southern, Coover and Brautigan to
illumine the foundering karmic barge of Barth,
Barthes, Barthelme, in the dark daunted eye of
the tired American - er, CaNADian night...

But what do I know, man?: I wasn't even born.

-David ("I celebrated the summer of love with an
arrowroot biscuit") Wright

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