Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje First published 1976

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • 1907
  • 813/.54
  • bolden, buddy , 1877-1931
  • fiction
  • fiction, biographical
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • jazz
  • jazz musicians
  • jazz musicians--fiction
  • musicians, fiction
  • musiciens de jazz
  • new orleans (la.)
  • new orleans (la.), fiction
  • pr9199.3.o5 c65 1996
  • romans
  • romans, nouvelles