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Coming through Slaughter (Paperback)

by Michael Ondaatje (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747572623
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747572626
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 123,501 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times 'The downtown world of bars, whores, streetlife bursting with music is evoked so vividly, so pungently you seem to breathe in the atmosphere I haven't been so excited by a new writer for a long time' Time Out 'Not only the best jazz novel ever written, but one of the best novels of any kind published in English in the last ten years' The Musician 'Michael Ondaatje is a novelist with the heart of a poet' Chicago Tribune


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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars writing that shimmers like wet chicory in the sun, 3 Jul 2000
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This review is from: Coming Through Slaughter (Picador Books) (Paperback)
Buddy Bolden is a near-mythic figure in the music world - claimed by many to have "invented" jazz near the turn of the (last) century. Here Ondaatje has taken the few facts known about the cornetist - there are no known recordings - and produces a superb novel that tells its story through song lyrics, poetry and breathtaking prose.

Bolden is portrayed in all his complexities and incongruities, lacking the necessary self-awareness or self-reflection to prevent his descent into madness. This is an emotionally brutal novel, contrasting against the beautiful and lyrical writing.

You don't have to be a jazz or even a music fan to enjoy this novel - in some ways the music is outside of the main narrative, which primarily focuses on the primal and divergent emotions of a man who carries a gift which is beyond the capacity of its vessel.

If you enjoyed this book, you'll probably also like Geoff Dyer's "But Beautiful", another gifted writer, who also can capture the transcendental quality of music and its creators.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Only very good indeed, 13 Oct 2009
By Craig Morrison "hackneyslim" (Western Sahara) - See all my reviews
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This guy can really write. Do yourself a favour and turn off the wall-screen for a minute.

It's got jazz, too. It's about a guy went crazy inventing the solo. Maybe. Never recorded a note, but people like Ellington, Bechet and Dr John have songs about him.

I can't pronounce his name, but if I could, I'd say Ondaatje with similar reverence I reserve for Buddy Bolden.
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