Michael Ondaatje: Coming Through Slaughter

Name: Michael Ondaatje: Coming Through Slaughter
Author: Ondaatje, Michael
ISBN: 9780330282529

by Ondaatje, Michael

ISBN: 9780330282529

Published: 1984

Canada

Based on the life of cornet playing Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of the turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, this book is also a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs.