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Winged Shoes and a Shield
Don Bajema
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Description for Winged Shoes and a Shield
Paperback. Vivid, unforgettable stories of a young boy's aching hopefulness, tortured disillusionment, and the confusing struggle of growing up in 1960s. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 371.
"A walking badass of a book."--Rolling Stone "Don is a great writer. His work is worth reading." -- Henry Rollins Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely uplifting odysseys, from hope to despair and back again. ... Read more
"A walking badass of a book."--Rolling Stone "Don is a great writer. His work is worth reading." -- Henry Rollins Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely uplifting odysseys, from hope to despair and back again. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872865884
SKU
V9780872865884
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About Don Bajema
Novelist, screenwriter, actor and performer Don Bajema was born in St. John's, New Foundland, Canada in 1949. He is the author of two highly acclaimed collections of short stories, "Boy In The Air" and "Reach." As an actor, Bajema first appeared on stage in the west coast premiere of Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class". With a lead role ... Read more
Reviews for Winged Shoes and a Shield
"Bajema's prose combines the precision of pop-song lyrics with the surreal haziness of a fever-dream... these lyrical stories treat a range of topics, from schoolboy football stardom and infatuation with a local beauty to Eddie's encounters with his emotionally battered father, described as a 'dog of war' with a 'soul in pieces.' A raw and direct pathway into the mind ... Read more