Description: Further DetailsTitle: Who By FireCondition: NewSubtitle: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard CohenEAN: 9781954118072ISBN: 9781954118072Publisher: Spiegel & GrauFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/25/2022Description: “An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world’s greatest songwriters.“—Haaretz “Not only is a hidden side of Cohen revealed but so too a hidden side of Israel.“—David Bezmozgis A Vanity Fair best book of 2022 * Mosaic Magazine best book of 2022 The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of the Sinai desert when Egypt attacked Israel on the Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur. Moving around the front with a guitar and a group of local musicians, Cohen met hundreds of young soldiers, men and women at the worst moment of their lives. Those who survived never forgot the experience. And the war transformed Cohen. He had announced that he was abandoning his music career, but he instead returned to Hydra and to his family, had a second child, and released one of the best albums of his career. In Who by Fire, journalist Matti Friedman gives us a riveting account of those weeks in the Sinai, drawing on Cohen’s previously unpublished writing and original reporting to create a kaleidoscopic depiction of a harrowing, formative moment for both a young country at war and a singer at a crossroads. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 209mmItem Length: 139mmAuthor: Matti FriedmanGenre: BiographyTopic: History, Music Dance & Theatre, Society & CultureISBN-10: 1954118074Type: StylesRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Who By Fire
Title: Who By Fire
Subtitle: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen
EAN: 9781954118072
ISBN: 9781954118072
Release Date: 08/25/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 209mm
ISBN-10: 1954118074
Type: Styles
Book Title: Who by Fire : Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau LLC
Topic: History & Criticism, Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture, Jewish
Publication Year: 2022
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Matti Friedman
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
