FRIEDMAN, Matti [Leonard Cohen].
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.
New York: Spiegel and Grau , 2022.
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First Edition of Matti Friedman's Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
First edition, early printing of this journalistic perspective of Leonard Cohen during the Yom Kippur War. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jack design by Strick and Williams.
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter whose work bridged literature and music through its exploration of spirituality, desire, and the human condition. Emerging from Montreal’s literary scene in the 1950s, Cohen first gained recognition for his poetry collections, including Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) and The Spice-Box of Earth (1961), before turning to songwriting in the late 1960s. Matti Friedman’s 'Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai' reconstructs a lesser-known chapter in 1973 when Leonard Cohen ventured into the Sinai Desert during the Yom Kippur War to perform impromptu concerts for Israeli soldiers, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, interviews, and wartime reportage to explore how the war became a crucible for both a nation and an artist caught at a crossroads.
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.
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