num_pages: 176
description: Based 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.
language: English
title: Coming Through Slaughter
titlecomplete: Coming Through Slaughter
genres: Jazz, Literature, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Music, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Canada
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