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| Original Title: | Boy in the Air |
| ISBN: | 1880985063 (ISBN13: 9781880985069) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Don Bajema
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 4.32 | 63 Users | 9 Reviews
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| Title | : | Boy in the Air |
| Author | : | Don Bajema |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1996 by 2.13.61 Publications (first published January 1st 1990) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction |
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The kind of book you carry around with you in order to read your favorite stories while you are waiting for a friend on a train platform somewhere and you ask yourself: how far can I run? how high can I jump? Don Bajema reminds me of someone that I know, and I would quite like to strike up a correspondence with him because he likes Carson McCullers and Kathy Acker, too. Beautiful, clear prose. A few uncomfortable stories as you follow the "downward" direction of the protagonist, Eddie. These vignettes are not quite flashbacks but meditations, reflections. They remind me of other boys who come of age, like the movie Thumbsucker, set in a quiet part of town, with trees and shrubs, and a boy and a girl wearing outdated clothes, becoming a man and a woman. The struggles are underlined with hope. Put a hand under your chin and stare out of the window and wonder if you are the person that you thought you would be.Rating Epithetical Books Boy in the Air
Ratings: 4.32 From 63 Users | 9 ReviewsEvaluation Epithetical Books Boy in the Air
One of my college favorites.This is a book of short stories, scraps and trinkets about a troubled young man in an ex-military trailer park in the southwest. I read it when I was in highschool and it gave me hope, in a dark sort of way. I've never read Basketball Diaries, but I would guess it has a similar subject matter. He's not a master craftsman, some of the stories seem unfinished, but there are some gems in white trash just waiting to be uncovered. It's on Henry Rollins' press so it get's punk rock points.
A former 500 Club regular.A collection of short pieces,some fictional,some semi-autobiographical.Life in Southern California in the 50's and 60's.And a good guy to share a few drinks with.
Great, unknown writer. Hung out with him for a few days in college.
I've read this book over and over again since High School. Great book about being and becoming a man.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Don and speaking to him. His direct and earthy nature comes through just as well in his writing as it does in person. There are some very beautiful Southern homey? images in this collection of short stories. There are also some very straightforward and powerful statements of opinion and disgust.
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