Coming through Slaughter
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Based on the life of cornet playing Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of the turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, this book is also a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs.
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Coming through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
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- 1984
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- Title
- Coming through Slaughter
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Ondaatje
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 1984
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0330282522
- ISBN13
- 9780330282529
- Category
- World prose
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- Based on the life of cornet playing Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of the turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, this book is also a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs.