description: Documents the life of cornet playing Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of the turn-of-the-century New Orleans.
language: English
title: Coming Through the Slaughter
titlecomplete: Coming Through the Slaughter (Bloomsbury Classics)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Poetry, Music, Canada, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Jazz
ratings_count: 6431
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Amazon.ca First Novel Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC