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Coming Through Slaughter
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  • Published: 12 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784877828
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $30.00
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Coming Through Slaughter

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30 May 2024
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12 Apr 2023
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Michael Ondaatje's incredible debut novel of Jazz and strife, published for the first time in Vintage Classics alongside his memoir, Running in the Family


Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times

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.
  • Published: 12 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784877828
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the 1992 Man Booker Prize, was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie, and was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis; and Warlight was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

portrait photo of Michael Ondaatje

Also by Michael Ondaatje

Warlight
The Cat's Table
A Year of Last Things
Running in the Family
The English Patient
Handwriting
Anil's Ghost
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Praise for Coming Through Slaughter

Assured, sensitive writing

Hair Past a Freckle

Readers are sure to be hooked from the very first page of this wonderfully written and wholly absorbing saga. A fascinating, compelling and outstanding read saga fans will not want to miss, District Nurse On Call is another winner by Donna Douglas

Bookish Jottings

I absolutely and totally flipping well LOVED this book. I award this book 5* out of 5* but I would award it more stars if I could because it really is that good

Ginger Book Geek

A very well researched and vivid portrayal of a close knit mining community facing poverty, hardship and danger during the momentous year of 1926. I was quickly drawn into this story, full of well drawn characters and intriguing relationships. Donna Douglas skilfully charts her heroine's attempts to be accepted by the proud and often hostile community she serves - uncovering secrets, heartbreak and lost loves along the way!

Mary Gibson, author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts

The second book in Sunday Times bestseller Donna Douglas's Nurses of Steeple Street series. West Yorkshire, 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street, Agnes Sheridan is looking forward to making her mark as Bowden's first district nurse, confident she can make a difference in the locals' lives.

from the publisher's description

[A] story of grit and determination

The People's Friend *****

an enjoyable read that will appeal to fans of Douglas' previous Nightingale Nurses series

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