Matters Of Vital Interest A Forty - Year Friendship With Leonard Cohen

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Matters Of Vital Interest A Forty - Year Friendship With Leonard Cohen
Author(s): Lerner Eric
Publisher: Hachette Books
Barcode: 9780306902703
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 10/16/2018
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers