Coming through slaughter

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Michael Ondaatje: Coming through slaughter (1984, Penguin Books)

156 pages

English language

Published 1984 by Penguin Books.

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Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber, cornet player, and full-time editor of a gossip sheet, disappears for two years, and when he returns, he goes berserk and spends his final years in the East Louisiana state hospital.

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  • Bolden, Buddy, 1877-1931 -- Fiction
  • Jazz musicians -- Fiction
  • New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction