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Lerner, Eric.
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Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016.
Lerner, Eric.
Composers -- Canada -- Biography.
Singers -- Canada -- Biography.
Buddhists -- Biography.
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Lerner, Eric.
Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016.
Lerner, Eric.
Composers -- Canada -- Biography.
Singers -- Canada -- Biography.
Buddhists -- Biography.
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Matters of vital interest : a forty-year friendship with Leonard Cohen /
Eric
Lerner
.
by
Lerner
,
Eric
.
Da Capo Press, 2018.
Call #:
782.42164 L616m
Subjects
Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016.
Lerner
,
Eric
.
Composers -- Canada -- Biography.
Singers -- Canada -- Biography.
Buddhists -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780306902703 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Forty-year friendship with Leonard Cohen
40 year friendship with Leonard Cohen
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend
Eric
Lerner
.
Lerner
, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a Zen retreat forty years earlier. Their friendship helped guide each other through life's myriad obstacles, a journey told from a new perspective for the first time. Funny, revealing, self-aware, and deeply moving, Matters of Vital Interest is an insightful memoir about
Lerner
's relationship with his friend, whose idiosyncratic style and dignified life was deeply informed by his spiritual practices.
Lerner
invites readers to step into the room with them and listen in on a lifetime's ongoing dialogue, considerations of matters of vital interest, spiritual, mundane, and profane. In telling their story,
Lerner
depicts Leonard Cohen as a captivating persona, the likes of which we may never see again."--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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