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Original Title:	Coming Through Slaughter
ISBN:	0679767851 (ISBN13: 9780679767855)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	Amazon.ca First Novel Award (1976), Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1996)

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Paperback | Pages: 156 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 5498 Users | 492 Reviews

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Title	:	Coming Through Slaughter
Author	:	Michael Ondaatje
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 156 pages
Published	:	March 19th 1996 by Vintage (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Music. Cultural. Canada. Literature. Poetry

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At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2,000 prostitutes, 70 professional gamblers, and 30 piano players. It had only one man who played the cornet like Buddy Bolden. By day he cut hair and purveyed gossip at N. Joseph's Shaving Parlor. At night he played jazz as though unleashing wild animals in a crowded room. At the age of thirty-one, Buddy Bolden went mad. From these sparse facts Michael Ondaatje has created a haunting, lushly atmospheric novel about one of jazz's legendary pioneers and martyrs. Obsessed with death, addicted to whiskey, and self-destructively in love with two women, Buddy Bolden embodies all the dire claims that music places on its acolytes. And as told in Coming Through Slaughter, his story is as beautiful and chilling as a New Orleans funeral procession, where even the mourners dance.

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I found this book absolutely haunting. As I've said before no other writer that I know of writes so damn... emotionally as Ondaatje. I was put inside the soul of jazz man Buddy Bolden - and his mind. This book is in turns maddeningly austere, and in others florid with intensity. Portions of this novel also have a pasted together feel, like overly humid newspaper clippings laid in collage upon a New Orleans light post. It lends itself well to a man who was said to have lost his mind.

English Patient, who? Now THIS is more like it. Experimental, impressionistic prose in the wild subjective to convey the surging, elemental sensibility of one of the deeply mythological founders of jazz...love that kind of thing and it necessitates this kind of writing. Very much enjoyed...

Sometimes you read something by an author and it's very good, and you think back over their other stuff that you've read, and realise that it was all good, and some of it was even very good, or very, very good, and you see suddenly that this writer is actually one of your absolute favourites, you just never articulated the thought until now. I haven't read anything in a while that made me wish I could write as much as this. Not to say it was perfect. It's an early work and you can see how his

Thinking about this book, I remembered a line that's spoken near the end of the film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend". Donald M. Marquis, in his book In Search of Buddy Bolden ,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3..., put together probably as many facts about the legendary New Orleans musician as we'll ever come to know. Michael Ondaatje, in this novel about Buddy Bolden (which was written before Marquis' book was published) has written a

The first Ondaatje novel I have read and on the strength of this, I will certainly be seeking out his other books. This is the imagined story of Buddy Bolden, the jazz pioneer about whom very little is actually known, and the prose is exquisite, original, clever and frequently offbeat, just like the best jazz music. At times I was reminded of one of the absurd and highly inventive 'routines' of a William Burroughs novel, for example the incident of the woman who is strangled Isadora Duncan style

Michael Ondaatje was already well established as a poet when he published this, a poet's first novel if ever there was one. It's an attempt to recreate the inner life of Buddy Bolden, a cornet player and pioneer of the new kind of American music that would soon become known as jass or jazz. No recordings exist of Bolden's playing, and very little is known of his life beyond the fact that he had a breakdown during a Mardi Gras parade, died years later in a Louisiana asylum, and was thought of by

[3.5 Stars]The first time I put on Miles Davis Bitches Brew I was laying on my bed in the dilapidated housing the university passed off as residence. The walls were cold brick on three sides and thin plaster on the wall that separated me from my neighboring roommate. It was a perpetually cold room, whose prison cell-like quality was only overshadowed by the little outside light the east facing windows allowed in. This was during the time when I had a brief foray into the world of cigarette