Coming through slaughter  -  Michael Ondaatje

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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...
1984 Taal: Engels zie alle details...
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1984 Uitgever: Picador 157 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0330282522 ISBN-13: 9780330282529