Coming Through Slaughter
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0747572623
ISBN 13
9780747572626
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
160
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Abstract
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 the field with two women, and inside his head was a ticking time-bomb which he was unable to stop.
Number of Copies
1
