Winged Shoes and a Shield: Collected Stories

<br><p>&quot;A walking badass of a book.&quot; - <i>Rolling Stone</i></p><br>&quot;Don is a great writer. His work is worth reading.&quot; -- Henry Rollins<br><p>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.</p><br><p>Author, screenwriter, actor, and performer <b>Don Bajema</b> lives in New York City.</p><br>