AUTHOR: EMMANUEL BURGIN
Vagabond Blues
Robbie Santos is a young man with dreams of NFL stardom thrust into a netherworld of minor league football where players hopped up on speed and painkillers injure one another for no other reason than because they can. They are drunks and drug-users, Vietnam Vets and NFL misfits, all trying just as hard to keep the adrenaline rush going after the game.
Over the course of one season playing with the Sumpter City Cougars, Robbie is forced to make decisions that could compromise his ideals, his football career, and his future. Do his choices change him or merely illuminate his true self?
“Brutal and Endearing.”
-Void Magazine
“Burgin illustrates the pain, confusion and battle like crush of the player’s in spare sentences that make you feel you are in the game. It’s the type of football book that once you start reading, you cannot put it down until you are finished.”
-Minor League Professional Football Newsletter
“A smart, hard-hitting novel that will grab you and carry you into the hearts of the players and the game.”
-Ken Kuhlken- Author of The DO-RE-MI
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FROM THE BLOG
Walkabout
A quick note on Walkabout. I took the name from the Australian Aboriginal rite of passage. In Aboriginal society, when a young male comes of age, he is sent to live in the wilderness and to walk the same paths his ancestors walked. In so doing, the journey becomes a spiritual communion with them.
Like some of you, I too am on a Walkabout. And the stories I find and tell here are my effort to see the path more clearly.
