Winged Shoes and a Shield

Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is constantly dodging bullets, suicide, the law, and the passing of time. Son of dust-bowl migrants to California, he comes of age in the post-war American suburbs, freefalling through the turbulent years that follow. The transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw stories.