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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	:	Deluxe 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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This novella leaves me wondering: Am I a prude? OR Did Ondaatje rely too much on vulgarity rather than digging for story?ORBoth?

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

The beautiful, lyrical, poetic writing and the original, inventive form evoke a time, place and mood that really works.

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.

I decided to read Michael Ondaajte's jazz age novel, Coming Through Slaughter (1976), as background reading to color in my recent trip to New Orleans. And color it did provide: sex, love triangles, gambling, drinking, whoring, music and a tour of the now lost Storyville red light district. This novel is a fictional depiction of the life of an obscure jazz musician, coronet player Buddy Bolden. It is experimental in form and has a lyrical quality that sets it apart from other novels in that much

I read this in an attempt to understand a little more about New Orleans. I haven't been. And to read more of Ondaatje, who I love. And because I was 32, a year older than Buddy Bolden when he went insane.Set in the Storyville district of New Orleans in the early days of the Jazz era, CTS unravels Bolden's life, (barber by day, cornet player by night) his sorted love life, madness, death-obsession, and jazz. Lyrical prose. Did I say lyrical? Sorry."And as told in Coming Through Slaughter, his

I was very meh about this book after about 20 pages, which is a bummer because I really love Ondaatjes work, but this just wasnt it for me.