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Loading... Winged Shoes and a Shield: Collected Storiesby Don Bajema
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I'm glad I got this book on Goodreads giveaway because I probably wouldn't buy it. The short stories have some good insights but I found them hard to follow. I'm sure Don Bajema has his fans but I'm not one of them. Although his writing is very good, I would prefer a more cohesive theme. And since the majority of the stories are about one character, why not tie them together into a novel. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"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. Author, screenwriter, actor, and performerDon Bajema lives in New York City. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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