Coming Through Slaughter
Novel by Michael Ondaatje
Originally published: 1976
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Genres: Historical Fiction, historical novel, Urban fiction, and more
Cover artist: Coach House Press (design)
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 ...
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This is a powerful book telling the story of Buddy Bolton who played coronet during the Storyville era of New Orleans at the turn of the century. Only this ...
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In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his ...
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In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his ...
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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 ...
Jan 4, 2013 · The book opens with a 3rd person narrator who is, I think, a man called Webb – a police detective and an old friend who searches for Buddy after ...
Oct 24, 2011 · It's a daring, audacious little book that defies categorisation - experimenting with fiction and non-fiction, photography, and dramatic changes ...
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In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his ...
May 12, 2019 · Morrison's novel is slinkier, like forgotten notes from a dozen songs cat-pawing through a moonlit room whispering their spooky secrets.