
Coming Through Slaughter
by Michael Ondaatje
Title:
Coming Through Slaughter
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
176 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9781784877828
EAN:
9781784877828
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
252
Dimensions (mm):
129 x 199 x 20
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday TimesBased 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 the field with two women, and inside his head was a ticking time-bomb which he was unable to stop.


















