Author, poet, lothario Leonard Cohen had lived a life before he released his first album, in 1967 at the age of 32. In this excellent oral history – the first of a proposed trilogy – Canadian author Michael Posner drills down deep into the first three decades of Cohen’s life, charting his unlikely journey from scion of Montreal’s upper-middle-class “Jewish aristocracy” to selfproclaimed Grocer Of Despair and poster boy for bedsitdwelling depressives everywhere.