Coming Through the Slaughter - Tapa dura

"Anybody who cares about good writing ... should get this book and luxuriate in it." -- "Minneapolis Tribune ""One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time." -- Geoff Dyer, "The Observer" "A beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written." -- "The Sunday Times" ""Coming Through Slaughter" ... is so stuffed full of the dolour and lust that both buoys and blemishes a life, it reads like a story dying to be told." -- "Books in Canada " " Anybody who cares about good writing ... should get this book and luxuriate in it." -- "Minneapolis Tribune "" One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time." -- Geoff Dyer, "The Observer" " A beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written." -- "The Sunday Times" " "Coming Through Slaughter" ... is so stuffed full of the dolour and lust that both buoys and blemishes a life, it reads like a story dying to be told." -- "Books in Canada "

This book is based on the life of cornet playing Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of the turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, this book is also a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs.