Leonard Cohen: A Life is a comprehensive account of the extraordinary life of one of the most significant and influential artists of our era. Acclaimed music journalist Sylvia Simmons traces Cohen's journey from Montreal, where he was born, to London, to the Greek island of Hydra and on to New York in the sixties, where he began his music career. It explores the trajectory of Cohen's brilliant career, including his retreat into a monastery in the mid-nineties and his triumphant return to concert performance fifteen years later. Wherever fate takes Cohen—in the alleys of Mumbai, in countless hotel rooms—Simmons always carefully examines all the details, all the contradictions of Cohen's life and perfectly describes the creativity, soul, depth and talent of an artist and a man who still touches people today. no one else.