Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen

Name: Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen
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ISBN: 9780465027590

ISBN-10: 0465027598

ISBN-13: 9780465027590

Edition: 2003

Authors: Roger Green

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Approaching the Age of Sixty, English poet Roger Green moves to the Greek island of Hydra because he has always felt himself more "south" than "north." When not teaching English at the Schola Bibendorum, he whiles away the hours at his portable Olivetti, attempting to write a proper story. At nights he sings for his supper at his favorite taverna, the Pyrofani. All seems fine. Until the day he discovers that his terrace has an unencumbered view of ... singer, songwriter, and counterculture icon Leonard Cohen's banana trees. And all starts to look quite different. Free to indulge his curiosity, he becomes transfixed with the goings-on in the garden adjoining the house that still belongs to…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 9/19/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Prologue


Introduction


Fun de Siecle


Notes to Fun de Siecle


Singing South


Banana Update


Interleaves


Steve Notes


Voyeur


My Journey


Homecoming


Enclosed Garden


Death in This Book


Rag-and-Bone Shop


Of Angels and Wolves


Emergency Exit


Suzanne


Sleepwalking


Mister Bowles and Mister Green


In Between


Works Cited


Acknowledgments


About the Author