So Long, Marianne

AT 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra withwriter Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axelabandoned her and their newborn son for another woman. One daywhile Marianne was shopping in a little grocery store, in walked a manwho asked her to join him and some friends outside at their table. Heintroduced himself as Leonard Cohen, then a little-known Canadianpoet.Complemented by previously unpublished poems, letters, andphotographs, So Long,...
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AT 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra withwriter Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axelabandoned her and their newborn son for another woman. One daywhile Marianne was shopping in a little grocery store, in walked a manwho asked her to join him and some friends outside at their table. Heintroduced himself as Leonard Cohen, then a little-known Canadianpoet.Complemented by previously unpublished poems, letters, andphotographs, So Long, Marianne is an intimate, honest account ofMarianne's life story -- from her youth in Oslo, her romance with Axel,to her life in an international artists colony on Hydra in the 1960s, andbeyond. The subject of one of the most beautiful love songs of all time,Marianne Ihlen proves to be more than a muse to Axel and Leonard; herjourney of self-discovery, romance, and heartache is lovingly recounted inSo Long, Marianne.