Amazons

I don’t want to talk about it * Don DeLillo, epigraph to AMAZONS *
Written with bone-dry wit, pitch-perfect dialogue and edgy social satire * New York Times *
By featuring a woman in a hypermasculine environment, the novel revels in opportunities to explore gender roles and lust as comic themes * The Times *
Light on its and feet and lethally funny… If you’re a careful reader of DeLillo’s work, his wit is absolutely delicious, and he can do a comic scene that will have you rolling on the floor, and that’s an aspect of his worldview that he let off the leash for AMAZONS * Bookforum *
A funny, racy hockey novel DeLillo published under a pen name, be reprinted for the first time in 46 years… a faux memoir written from the perspective of the first woman to play in the NHL, full of jokes, weird asides and social satire, and a fair amount of sex. There’s hockey too, of course. * Literary Hub *
Closest thing we have to a great American hockey novel * Keith Gessen *

Cleo Birdwell is a pseudonym. She is the fictional first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League.

Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays. He has won many honors, including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

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