Amazons

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. – Luke Kennard * Booker-longlisted author of BLACK BAG *
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… 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 * New York Times *
The funniest book I’ve ever read – Rachel Kushner, Booker-shortlisted author of CREATION LAKE
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
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 scores. * Booklist *
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

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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