# Coming Through Slaughter

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- Book: [Coming Through Slaughter](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje/coming-through-slaughter) ([Coming Through Slaughter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje/coming-through-slaughter.md))
- Authors: [Michael Ondaatje](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7976-785-5
- Pages: 160
- Published: 1996-03-19
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator...