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Coming Through Slaughter

Paperback • 1996 • English

Coming Through Slaughter

By Michael Ondaatje

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About the book

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 rem...Show more

Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction
Magical realism
Fantasy romance

Book details

ISBN

9780679767855

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Coming Through Slaughter

Format

Paperback

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