Coming Through Slaughter.
by ONDAATJE, Michael
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393087654
- ISBN 13
- 9780393087659
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1976. Signed on the title page by Michael Ondaatje. Second printing. Beige cloth spine, dark ocher paper-covered boards.. Fine in fine dust jacket. Though original price is present on the top of front flap, the bottom of the flap has been clipped by the publisher (frequently seen with Norton publications of this era.
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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- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16392-1
- Title
- Coming Through Slaughter.
- Author
- ONDAATJE, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Beige cloth spine, dark ocher paper-covered boards..
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393087654
- ISBN 13
- 9780393087659
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1976.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music; Fiction;
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