Coming Through Slaughter

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Coming Through Slaughter is a stylistically experimental novel by Michael Ondaatje that fictionalizes the life of early jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden in turn-of-the-century New Orleans.

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instanceOf Canadian novel
novel
postmodern novel
author Michael Ondaatje
awarded Books in Canada First Novel Award
basedOn Buddy Bolden
countryOfOrigin Canada
firstPublicationYear 1976
followedBy Running in the Family
genre biographical novel
experimental fiction
historical fiction
hasAdaptation radio drama adaptation
hasCharacter Buddy Bolden
Nora Bolden
Robin Brewitt
Webb
hasISBN 9780393305757
hasMediaType print
includedIn Michael Ondaatje bibliography
inspiredBy New Orleans jazz scene
early jazz history
language English
literaryMovement postmodernism
mainCharacter Buddy Bolden
narrativeStyle fragmented
nonlinear
narrativeTechnique documentary fragments
multiple perspectives
stream of consciousness
notableFor fictionalized biography of Buddy Bolden
stylistically experimental form
pageCountApproximate 150
placeOfPublication Toronto
precededBy The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
publisher Anansi
W. W. Norton & Company
settingLocation New Orleans
settingTimePeriod early 20th century
turn of the century
subject identity
improvisation
jazz
madness
music

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Michael Ondaatje notableWork Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje wrote Coming Through Slaughter