Description
| Product ID: | 9781784877828 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Coming Through Slaughter |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Ondaatje |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Jazz, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Discover Michael Ondaatje''s debut novel, ''a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written'' Sunday Times |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-12-08 |