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|title=I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

|author=Sylvie Simmons

|publisher=Vintage

|date=June 2013

|summary=A biography and examination of the musical and literary work of Leonard Cohen, who was initially a novelist and poet before becoming one of the most highly acclaimed singer-songwriters.

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If you or I wanted to write a story about an imaginary figure who began as a novelist and poet, then became acclaimed as a singer-songwriter in the swinging sixties, made and lost a fortune, became a monk, and returned to a musical career at an age when most mortals are well into retirement, and found himself not only more popular than ever but also playing to the largest audiences in his entire life, it would be dismissed as total fantasy. Nobody could make it up – and nobody needs to, because in a nutshell that is the life (so far) of Leonard Cohen, the subject of this biography and surely one of the music business’s most unique figures.