Coming Through Slaughter

novel by Ondaatje

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  • Michael Ondaatje
    In Michael Ondaatje: Prose works

    …known than his poetry, include Coming Through Slaughter (1976), a novel about the descent into insanity of the New Orleans jazz musician Buddy Bolden; Running in the Family (1982), his memoirs about life in Ceylon; and In the Skin of a Lion (1987), a novel about the clash between rich…

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