Coming through Slaughter

Name: Coming through Slaughter
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Michael Ondaatje
ISBN: 9780747572626

Michael Ondaatje

02/08/2004
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Coming through Slaughter par Michael Ondaatje

Résumé

Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversations and monologues, Ondaatje builds a picture of a man who would work by day at a barber shop and by night unleash his talent to wild audiences who had never experienced such playing. But Buddy was also playing the field with two women, and inside his head was a ticking time-bomb which he was unable to stop.