<DIV><BR><P>"A walking badass of a book."?<I>Rolling Stone</I></P><BR>"Don is a great writer. His work is worth reading." -- 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></DIV>