
Winged Shoes and a Shield
"A walking badass of a book."—Rolling Stone
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 lyr...
"A walking badass of a book."—Rolling Stone
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 lyr...