“The book, like the singer, embraces the sacred and the profane. With plenty of photographs, including of Cohen at his dapper best, this is a book to get lost in.” — Booklist, Starred Review

“I am deeply respectful of the mind that has produced this book.” — Leonard Cohen, private email

“An extraordinary piece of work, at every level … It’s the biographical denouement that Leonard deserves… Takes Cohenian biography to another level.” — Michael Posner, author of Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years

“The best book about Leonard Cohen.” — Jean-Luc Porquet, Le canard enchainé

“An erudite and amorous page-turner on the wandering Canadian that reaches beyond dates and facts.” — Emmanuel Dosda, Poly

“An impressive piece of work: Christophe Lebold has chosen a literary form for his homage and succeeds. The book rises to the level of its subject and that is not saying little.” — Eric Naulleau, literary critic

“Cohen under the surgeon’s scalpel: a book that retraces Leonard Cohen’s unique poetic odyssey and combines liveliness and passion with a scholarly twist. The inspired biographer crystallizes the different avatars of ‘the man who saw the angels fall’ and takes us along on the poet’s existential quest.” — Dernières nouvelles d’Alsace

“A great and very stylish book that makes you feel the poet’s soul.” — Pierre Charpilloz, Réservoir, le plein de culture

“A spirited, critical biography [that] approaches Cohen with bright curiosity. The author tracks the “high-priest, ladies’ man and poet . . . Thanks to Lebold’s vibrant analysis, Leonard Cohen is very much back.” — Victoria Segal, Mojo Magazine

“The definitive biography of the great singer-songwriter” — David Hennessey, The Irish World

“An illuminating biography. More than just a factual account, The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall offers a sharp analysis of the songs and writings of the famous troubadour.” — Jean-Christophe Laurence, La Presse

“A reference biography, the one that contains everything. Dense and fascinating from A to Z.” — Alexandre Courteau, Tellement Courtaud, Radio Canada

“Unmissable. A loving yet professional approach. I urge people to buy Leonard Cohen: the Man Who Saw the Angels Fall.” — Winston McQuade, Le Culturel 2.0

“This is a rhapsodic and fluidly written new take on Canadian poet/crooner/troubadour and pessimistic, introspective social commentator Cohen...This big biography of Cohen will appeal to a wide variety of readers, especially the philosophically minded.” — Library Journal

“Christophe Lebold’s biography of one of popular music’s greatest songwriters is outstanding, grounding its subject in the historical times that formed him and his art ... Leonard Cohen is a literary masterpiece — the seminal, comprehensive biography of a multitalented man who wrote more than his share of literary masterpieces himself.” — Foreword, Starred Review

“It’s marvelous and highly recommended. Crammed with photos, footnotes, a blizzard of evidence, of fantastic research and opinion: this is ESSENTIAL.” — Jim Devlin, author of Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words and In Every Style of Passion: The Works of Leonard Cohen

“Combining scholarly biography, luminous exegesis, and metaphysics of the broken heart, this is the Summa Cohenia we needed. With Gilles Tordjman’s book, this is the best homage to the work of the Christ-loving Jewish poet.” — Bernard Loupias, Le nouvel observateur

“Cohen ceaselessly questions the world, as Christophe Lebold brilliantly demonstrates in Leonard Cohen: L’Homme qui voyait tomber les anges, a learned, vibrant, and inspired study devoted to the immortal creator of ‘Hallelujah.’” — Myriam Perfetti, Marianne

“With wide-angle shots of the Cohen constellation and clever close-ups on this loved woman or that inhabited place. This work is a treasure: the wind of rock has blown there and vibration rhymes with erudition.” — Vincent Dussol, Transatlantica

“Christophe Lebold devotes to the poet a marvelous volume, which opens with a triptych on gravity, wandering, and the broken heart.” — Daniel Bougnoux, La croix

“The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall is rich in detail, moving, and compelling.” — Metaphor(e) Magazine

“This is the definitive biography of the poet, author, songwriter and bon viveur. A highbrow work that is still subtly sensational. A Masterpiece.” — Nick Dalton, Record Collector

“Potentially the ultimate biography of the poet and singer.” — Felix B Desfossé, Le Devoir

“An intriguing, 543-page compendium that takes a deep metaphysical dive into the late Montrealer’s world. Among a host of other mystical subjects and pursuits, Lebold touches deftly and lyrically on Cohen’s obsessions with falling and rising angels, pilgrims, avalanches, and alchemy. . . . Few know more about Cohen than Lebold.” — Bill Brownstein, The Montreal Gazette

“I am captured by this book” — Stanley Péan, Radio Canada