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Coming through slaughter / Michael Ondaatje.
At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2000 prostitutes, 70 professional gamblers, and 30 piano players. But it had only one man who played the cornet like Buddy Bolden - he who cut hair by day at N. Joseph's Shaving Parlor, and at night played jazz, unleashing an unforgettable wildness and passion in crowded rooms. Self-destructively in love with two women, he embodied all the dire claims that music places on its acolytes. At the age of 31, Buddy Bolden went mad. From these sparse facts, Michael Ondaatje has created a story as beautiful and chilling as a New Orleans funeral procession, where even the mourners dance.
Record details
- ISBN: 0887840523
- ISBN: 0887840515
- ISBN: 9780887840517
- ISBN: 9780887840524
- ISBN: 0887840515 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 156 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Anansi, 1976.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | FIC OND (Text) | 35146001068600 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
