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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784877828Number of pages: 176Weight: 127 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
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The downtown world of bars,whores,streetlife bursting with music is evoked so vividly,so pungently you seem to breathe in the atmosphere... I haven't been so excited by a new writer for a long timeA beautifully detailed story,perhaps the finest jazz novel ever writtenNot only the best jazz novel ever written,but one of the best novels of any kind published in English in the last ten yearsMichael Ondaatje is a novelist with the heart of a poet
Michael Ondaatje
Born in Sri Lanka,author Michael Ondaatje moved to England as a child and then to Canada where he still lives today. A playwright,novelist,poet and author of non-fiction he is best-known for his 1992 novel The English Patient which was the joint winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name.
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