Sex, mourning, and faith bleed into one another with one of the most famed lyricists of our time.

Set largely in a Montreal apartment that functions as both domestic space and private hell, the book follows a bereaved narrator obsessively reconstructing love, betrayal, and loss through memory, fantasy, and blasphemy.

A tangled triangle of two men and a woman spirals toward repetition and ruin, while the figure of Catherine Tekakwitha — a seventeenth-century Iroquois saint — hovers as an impossible source of grace. Redemption here is erotic, violent, and profoundly unstable.

Incandescent in its language, Beautiful Losers remains one of the defining experimental novels of the 1960s. We love.

Priced because it's a beautiful hardback edition from Banned Books in great condition.