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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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25 editions · 6 languages- Paperback · English · 2004Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 176 pages · 9780747572626
- Hardcover · English · 1993Coming Through Slaughter (Bloomsbury Classic)Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 288 pages · 9780747515883
- Paperback · English · 1984Coming Through Slaughter (Picador Books)Picador · 160 pages · 9780330282529
- Hardcover · English · 1979Marion Boyars Publishers · 160 pages · 9780714526713
- Other · English · 2022Coming Through the SlaughterPenguin Random House · 9781529193473
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