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Cover of Coming Through Slaughter

Coming Through Slaughter

by Michael Ondaatje

1976 · literary fiction · adult

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

  • ★
    New Orleans · United States
    Storyville jazz era New Orleans
    ★ primary

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