Cleo Birdwell

Don DeLillo

Outrageously funny, erotic and vivid in its unforgettable characters and skewed wisdom. It’s also a kind of talisman against a thousand-thousand pointless, moribund celebrity memoirs; a pitch-perfect satire that somehow also remains joyous and uncynical. My mind and spirit feels cleansed by it.

I don’t know what to tell you except that Don DeLillo has written a horny hockey novel and – while he may not wish to publish it under his own name – nothing can diminish the pleasure of this magnificently funny, strange and joyful book

Joe Dunthorne, bestselling author of SUBMARINE and CHILDREN OF RADIUM

Rachel Kushner, Booker-shortlisted author of CREATION LAKE

Written with bone-dry wit, pitch-perfect dialogue and edgy social satire... The novel is studded with absurd, madcap moments, but it also sneaks in social satire thatin retrospect looks, as DeLillo’s work often does, prescient

By featuring a woman in a hypermasculine environment, the novel revels in opportunities to explore gender roles and lust as comic themes

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

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.

Closest thing we have to a great American hockey novel

The biggest re-release of the year... This is full-tilt DeLillo in a comedic picaresque mode, reveling in a woman’s perspective on the follies great and small of men and society. Fizzing with shrewd commentary with a stand-up comedy vibe, wily absurdity, and vividly rendered characters, Amazons <i>scores</i>.

An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League

Cleo Birdwell is twenty-four, a schoolteacher’s daughter from Badger, Ohio, and the first ever female recruit to play in the National Hockey League. She is an instant sensation on and off the ice - lauded not only for her mettle on the rink, but also for her honey blonde hair, her milky blue eyes, her style and her stamina. And as she spends her first season travelling across North America, she can’t help but stumble into her own adventures of sex, fun, and scandal.<br/>
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A cult treasure, re-issued for the first time in fifty years, Don DeLillo’s pseudonymous masterpiece offers a gloriously funny skewering of the absurdity of the male gaze, the commodification of sport, the booming culture of 70s America – and of one young woman determined to make her way on her own terms.

Cleo Birdwell

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