Boy in the Air

By Don Bajema

This is the kind of book you carry around with you in order to read your favorite stories while you are waiting for a friend on a train platform somewhere and you ask yourself, "How far can I run? How... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880985063
• ISBN13: 9781880985069
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: 2 13 61
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

I can't believe I waited 12 years to buy this book!

I heard him read an excerpt of it on the radio and was quite impressed. The guy can tell a story! The book is a collection of remembrances from a tortured and somehow hopeful boy turning into a man. It's raw, sincere, and is guaranteed to hit any person who ever grew up sans silver spoon right in the gut. If you're not reminded of certain periods in your life and the hell they were, then you certainly have lived a charmed life. Man or woman, this reading will clear a few things up. And buy a copy for a friend.

a book about us

this book is a collection of images, memories, and stories centered around a young man named eddie burnett...but it is truly a book about AMERICA - about our ugliness, hope, war-lust, gender and race tensions, as well as the dream that we are all created with: to be air-borne. a fantastic read. bajema is a master in this verbal mosaic.

Intense vignettes about growing up in 50s & 60s Southern Calif

An awesome read. I developed a real relationship with the main character as he goes from youthful dreamer to a loaner on the run. Truthfully, it reminds me of those sharp little bits of my past that I can still vividly remember. Of course all characters and events are entirely fictional...

Classic Americana.

Mr. Bajema captures the feelings of being American in a time when those feelings were unmatched in intensity. From the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and the aftermath of each. Eddie Burnett becomes a classic character in American letters.

This is it. . .

I am in awe of this man as a writer. I laughed out loud, wept openly, and came away indelibly marked by this man's deeply personal and achingly human storytelling. Don Bajema writes from the spine. His writing reaches THAT deeply into what connects us, and equally deeply into that quiet loneliness that keeps us apart. This is the real thing. This is the stuff of enduring American literature. It just doesn't get any better than this.