by Sylvie Simmons

Canadian / UK / US covers

Title	I'm Your Man - The Life of Leonard Cohen
Author	Sylvie Simmons
Country & Year	USA/Canada/UK 2012
Publishers	Harper Collins, USA (September 18) McClelland & Stewart, Canada (October 23) Jonathan Cape/Random House, UK (November 1)
Pages	USA and Canada: 576 UK: 560
Notes	USA: ISBN 9780061994982 Canada: 9780771080401 UK: 9780224090636
Summary	I’m Your Man is the definitive account of that extraordinary life. Acclaimed music journalist Sylvie Simmons crafts a portrait of Cohen as nuanced as the man himself, drawing on a wealth of research that includes Cohen’s personal archives and more than a hundred exclusive interviews with those closest to Cohen—from his lovers, friends, monks, professors, rabbis and fellow musicians to his muses, including Rebecca De Mornay, Marianne Ihlen, Suzanne Elrod and Suzanne Verdal—and most important, with Cohen himself, whose presence infuses these pages. Starting in Montreal, Cohen’s birthplace, where he first found fame as a poet in the fifties, Simmons follows his trail, via London and the Greek island of Hydra, to New York in the sixties, where he launched his music career. From there she traces the arc of his prodigious achievements to his remarkable retreat in the mid-nineties—when on the cusp of marriage to a beautiful actress and enjoying the success of his best-selling album to date, he entered a monastery on a rocky mountaintop above Los Angeles—and finally to his reemergence for a sold-out world tour almost fifteen years later. Whether navigating Cohen’s journeys through the back streets of Mumbai or the countless hotel rooms where he has stayed along the way, Simmons explores with equal focus every complex, contradictory strand of Cohen’s life—from the halls of academia to the arenas of rock ’n’ roll—and presents a deeply insightful portrait of both the artist and the man whose vision, spirit, depth and talent continue to move people like no one else. Read an interview with Sylvie Simmons here

Covers of German / Dutch / Spanish editions

Title	German edition: I'm Your Man. Das Leben des Leonard Cohen Dutch edition: I'm Your Man - Het leven van Leonard Cohen Spanish edition: Soy tu hombre. La vida de Leonard Cohen
Translated by:	Germany edition: Kirsten Borchardt Dutch edition: René Van Veen Spanish edition:
Country & Year	Germany/The Netherlands/Spain 2012
Publishers	Germany: btb Verlag (October 1, 2012) The Netherlands: Nijgh & Van Ditmar (October, 2012) Spain: Editorial Lumen (October 4, 2012)
Pages	Germany: 752 The Netherlands: 448 Spain: ?
Notes	ISBN: Germany: 9783442752928 Netherlands: 9789038896298 (Paperback) Spain: 9788426419194