I'm your man : the life of Leonard Cohen / Sylvie Simmons.

Includes index.

Born in a suit -- House of women -- Twenty thousand voices -- I had begun to shout -- A man who speaks with a tongue of gold -- Enough of fallen heroes -- Please find me, I am almost 30 -- A long time shaving -- How to court a lady -- The dust of a long sleepless night -- The Tao of cowboy -- O make me a mask -- The veins stand out like highways -- A shield against the enemy -- I love you, Leonard -- A sacred kind of conversation -- The hallelujah of the orgasm -- The places where I used to play -- Jeremiah in Tin Pan Alley -- From this broken hill -- Love and theft -- Taxes, children, lost pussy -- The future of rock 'n' roll -- Here I stand, I'm your man -- A manual for living with defeat.

The legend behind such songs as "Suzanne," "Bird on the Wire" and "Hallelujah" and the poet and novelist behind such groundbreaking literary works as Beautiful Losers and Book of Mercy , Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential artists of our era, a man of powerful emotion and intelligence whose work has explored the definitive issues of human life-sex, religion, power, meaning, love. Cohen is also a man of complexities and seeming contradictions: a devout Jew, who is also a sophisticate and ladies' man, as well as an ordained Buddhist monk whose name, Jikan-"ordinary silence"-is quite the appellation for a writer and singer whose life has been anything but ordinary. Whether navigating Cohen's journeys through the back streets of Mumbai or the countless hotel rooms where he has stayed along the way, Simmons explores with equal focus every complex, contradictory strand of Cohen's life - from the halls of academia to the arenas of rock 'n' roll - and presents a deeply insightful portrait of both the artist and the man whose vision, spirit, depth and talent continue to move people like no one else.

English.