false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553811m/5949.jpg 80064 31 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 of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. <br><br>In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either <i>The English Patient</i> or <i>In the Skin of a Lion</i>, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje <i>oeuvre</i>. 2702613 1976 Coming Through Slaughter total:1155|5:445|4:422|3:224|2:55|1:9| 1155 4704 1579 144 5 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 13:39:58 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 09:14:10 -0700 2008
I haven't read Ondaatje before, or at least not much, and I don't know what I expected, but the level of lyricism from page to page, paragraph to paragraph was really stunning and made this a really rather incredible read.

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Michael Ondaatje weaves a ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 17:07:30 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 13 11:03:21 -0700 2008 Set in the Storyville district of New Orleans in the early days of the Jazz era, CTS un...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 30 08:15:07 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 09:14:10 -0700 2008 Jazz phase). I wouldn't say that as a whole this book *blew me away*, but I would say that individual sections and single phrases absolutely did. I often found myself so dazzled by his language that I forgot to think abou...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 04:45:22 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 04:59:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 21:21:08 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 21:41:47 -0700 2009
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