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The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and is partly set in Slaughter, Louisiana. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in 1907, as his music becomes more radical and his behavior more erratic.
- Michael Ondaatje
- 1976
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.
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- Paperback
- Michael Ondaatje
Written nearly twenty years before The English Patient, Coming Through Slaughter is the novel of a more rogue Ondaatje, who helped, along with other poets such as Robert Kroetsch, develop the literary movement of postmodernism in Canada.
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- michael-ondaatje
In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down.
- Michael Ondaatje
- Paperback
Written nearly twenty years before The English Patient, Coming Through Slaughter is the novel of a more rogue Ondaatje, who helped, along with other poets such as Robert Kroetsch, develop the literary movement of postmodernism in Canada.
- (225)
- Audio CD
- Michael Ondaatje
Mar 19, 1996 · With muscular writing, tight phrasing, and an eye for detail, Coming Through Slaughter runs down the riffs like a house on fire. While Buddy Bolden's life unravels in real time, he helps create America's original music: jazz; burning himself out in the process.
- Michael Ondaatje
A fictionalized biography of Buddy Bolden, a cornet player who was one of the first jazz pioneers in New Orleans. The novel explores his musical genius, his personal struggles and his tragic fate through various sources and styles.
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