Author Description

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