Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Also published as: Coming Through the Slaughter

first published 1976 General Publishing Co., 1982 156 pages

New Press Canadian Classics

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.

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Editions we hold

Coming Through the Slaughter edition · 2022 · Penguin Random House · 9781529193473
Coming Through the Slaughter edition · 2022 · Penguin Random House · 9781784877828
Coming Through Slaughter edition · 2011 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781299035201
Coming Through Slaughter edition · 2011 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 208 pages · 9781408821237
Coming Through Slaughter edition · 2009 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9780747599555
Coming Through Slaughter paperback · 2004 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 176 pages · 9780747572626
El blues de Buddy Bolden paperback · 1999 · Destino · 209 pages · 9788423331413
Buddy Bolden, une légende edition · 1999 · Éditions de l'Olivier · 183 pages
Coming through slaughter edition · 1998 · Vintage Canada · 160 pages
Buddy Boldens Blues. paperback · 1997 · Dtv · 179 pages · 9783423123334
Coming through slaughter edition · 1996 · Vintage International · 156 pages
Buddy Boldens Blues edition · 1995 · C. Hanser Verlag · 179 pages

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