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''Beautiful Losers'' was one of the selected novels in the 2005 edition of '' Canada Reads '', where it was originally to be read by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright , though tour commitments meant that Wainright had to be replaced by Singer Molly Johnson . At the centre of the novel are the members of a Love Triangle , united by their obsessions and fascination with a mythic seventeenth-century Mohawk Blessed , Tekakwitha . The triangle is made up of the unnamed narrator, an authority on the vanishing A -- tribe, his wife Edith, one of the last surviving members of the tribe, and their maniacal and domineering friend, F. The novel is sometimes vulgar, sometimes rhapsodic, and sometimes bitingly witty, as it explores the particular brand of self-abandonment each character adopts, whereby the sensualist becomes indistinguishable from the saint. Comical, disturbing, and fiercely moving, ''Beautiful Losers'' is a classic of Canadian Literature New Film: Beautiful Losers was filmed for the first time, adapted into a studio film ( a filmed play) in 1996 and was transferred to DVD in 2005. It is two hours long and was adapted and directed by Stephanie Marshall -(email address dramaticimprovement@btinternet.com). |
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