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

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Paperback | Pages: 156 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 5498 Users | 492 Reviews

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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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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)

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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?

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What he did too little of was sleep and what he did too much of was drink and many interpreted his later crack-up as a morality tale of a talent that debauched itself. But his life at this time had a fine and precise balance to it, with a careful allotment of hours. A barber, a publisher of The Cricket, a cornet player, good husband and father, and an infamous man about town. Buddy Bolden takes ragtime and infuses it with the blues, creating a new music called Jass, an early offspring of what

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.

This book was my introduction to Ondaatje. When I read it in my early 20s I was enthralled as if by the appearance of a new and beastly species of animal. I was amazed by its experimental form, poetic sparks, and shockingly brutal imagery. Im 40 now, and was very curious to see how Coming Through Slaughter had aged for me. After a recent third reading, I gotta say, it remains one of my all-time favourite novels. Though, I have to admit, Im now a little bit allergic to some of its dramatic

This a fictional story based on the rich, the tragic, and true life of the New Orleans Jazz Musician Buddy Bolden. A historical figure of whom we know very little, of whom there is only one extant photo, and no recordings. Yet we know he eventually goes mad. Michael Ondaatje weaves a captivating story from only shreds of evidence through a form of prose that I have never quite seen before. The narrator is constantly shifting, as is the chronology, as is the word form. Parts of this read like

I didn't like the structure of this. It was like going through someone's desk drawer and finding disjointed bits and pieces of somebody's life that I had never heard of in the first place---but the writing is good.