A review by jatridle
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

5.0

This book is more a collection of great passages than a cohesive novel. You can pick it up and read a page or two for the language alone, then put it back up on the shelf for awhile. Some may not like the scattered form or lack of a tight, cohesive plot. I think the form works well for depicting the life of Buddy Bolden, an enigmatic Jazz legend who was never recorded and who no one really knows much about.