Coming Through Slaughter
by Michael Ondaatje
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Synopsis
Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalised version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in 1907, as his music becomes more radical and his behaviour more erratic. A secondary character in the story is the photographer E. J. Bellocq.
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- Bookseller
- MDS Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000084
- Title
- Coming Through Slaughter
- Author
- Michael Ondaatje
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
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