Coming Through Slaughter

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COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER by MICHAEL ONDAATJE
'The downtown worid of bars, whores, streetlife bursting with music is evoked so vividly, so pungently you seem to breathe in the atmosphere 1 haven't been so excited by a new writer for a long time. ' TIME OUT
"¦Coming Through Slaughter is based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, Coming Through Slaughter is a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs, interviews, archival material, hospital files. These bits of historical data are entwined with imaginary conversations and monologues which attempt to explain Bolden's life and aspirations in the context of backstreet New Orleans. The result is an often brilliantly wrought, cinematic series of short scenes, jagged, dislocated and seemingly spontaneous, that also approximate the quality of the music that smttered or flowed out of Bolden's... Tovább

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COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER by MICHAEL ONDAATJE
'The downtown worid of bars, whores, streetlife bursting with music is evoked so vividly, so pungently you seem to breathe in the atmosphere 1 haven't been so excited by a new writer for a long time. ' TIME OUT
"¦Coming Through Slaughter is based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, Coming Through Slaughter is a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs, interviews, archival material, hospital files. These bits of historical data are entwined with imaginary conversations and monologues which attempt to explain Bolden's life and aspirations in the context of backstreet New Orleans. The result is an often brilliantly wrought, cinematic series of short scenes, jagged, dislocated and seemingly spontaneous, that also approximate the quality of the music that smttered or flowed out of Bolden's cornet.' TORONTO STAR
'Not only the best jazz novel ever written, but one of the best novels of any kind published in EngUsh in the last ten years. Ondaatje builds up his portrait of Bolden's black New Orleans by an accumulation of small,' " sometimes infinitesimal details. From the handful of known facts about Bolden's life, Ondáatje spins a story that moves in the direction of myth.' THE MUSICIAN
'We understand the slow ceremonial sense of time we see the leaking colours of the houses and streets, and we feel the brilUant pressures of the music.' NEW YORKER
'The book moves very much like a dream; its complexity is in the way in which the dream is sometimes Bolden's, sometimes his wife Nora's, sometimes that of Bolden's friends, sometimes Ondaatje's, sometimes the reader's. Always, when pure mood threatens to submerge the tale, Ondaatje counters with fact, historical incident, a verbatim fragment of an old jazzman's recollection, and the novel never loses its balance.' ROLLING STONE Vissza