Coming Through Slaughter
Ondaatje, Michael
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.
In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre.
AUTHOR BIO
Michael Ondaatje is the author of three previous novels, a memoir and eleven books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Anybody who cares about good writing ... should get this book and luxuriate in it." Minneapolis Tribune
"One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time." Geoff Dyer, The Observer
"A beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written." The Sunday Times
"Coming Through Slaughter ... is so stuffed full of the dolour and lust that both buoys and blemishes a life, it reads like a story dying to be told." Books in Canada
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679767851
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679767855
Copyright: 1996
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 95046416
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 156
Paper Weight (lb): 0.4
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