Who by fire : Leonard Cohen in the Sinai / Matti Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Matti, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016.

Cohen, Leonard.

Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016--Travel--Israel.

Israel-Arab War, 1973--Music and the war.

Israel-Arab War, 1973.

Singers--Canada--Biography.

Singers.

Lyricists--Canada--Biography.

Lyricists.

Poets, Canadian--20th century--Biography.

Poets, Canadian.

Composers--Canada--Biography.

Composers.

Travel.

Canada.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2022]

Summary:

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Fire, journalist Matti Friedman gives us a riveting account of those weeks in the Sinai, drawing on Cohen's previously unpublished writing and original reporting to create a kaleidoscopic depiction of a harrowing, formative moment for both a young country at war and a singer at a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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Radar Station 528, Sharm el-Sheikh

2. The Gate of Heaven

3. Egypt's Bullet: From Cohen's Lost Manuscript

4. According to Whose Plan?

5. A Wound in the Jewish War: From Cohen's Lost Manuscript

6. Myth Home

7. Beginning Again

8. Who by Water

9. A Shield Against the Enemy

10. Brothers

11. In the Desert

12. Tea and Oranges

13. No Words

14. Already Wet

15. Psychology

16. Respite

17. The Story of Isaac

18. Yukon

19. Africa

20. Blood on Your Hands

21. Radar Station 528, Sharm el-Sheikh

22. Bathsheba

23. Let It Be

24. War Is a Dream

25. Who by Fire

26. A Blessing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201).

ISBN:

9781954118072

1954118074

OCLC:

1261879396