Winged Shoes and a Shield: Collected Stories

By Don Bajema

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.

"A walking badass of a book."--Rolling Stone

"Don is a great writer. His work is worth reading."--Henry Rollins

Author, screenwriter, actor and performer, Don Bajema lives in New York City.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872865886
• ISBN13: 9780872865884
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.9"