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Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje
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Description for Coming Through Slaughter
Paperback.
Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times
Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversations and monologues, Ondaatje builds a picture of a man who would work by day at a barber shop and by night unleash his talent to wild audiences who had never experienced such playing. But Buddy was also playing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784877828
SKU
9781784877828
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Ref
99-1
About Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels; a memoir, Running in the Family; a non-fiction book on film, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film; and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was made into ... Read more
Reviews for Coming Through Slaughter
The downtown world of bars, whores, streetlife bursting with music is evoked so vividly, so pungently you seem to breathe in the atmosphere... I haven't been so excited by a new writer for a long time
Time Out
A beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written
Sunday Times
Not only the best jazz ... Read more
Time Out
A beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written
Sunday Times
Not only the best jazz ... Read more