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Don DeLillo’s sexy hockey novel is getting reissued.

Literary Hub·@JamesFolta·2 months ago
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Sure, your parents warned you not to do something only because your friends want you to, but sometimes maybe you should. This week, I’m thankful that Don DeLillo has finally relented to peer pressure and let his 1980 book *Amazons*, the funny, racy hockey novel he published under a pen name, be reprinted for the first time in 46 years. According to *Publishers Marketplace* and the *New York* *Times*, DeLillo’s pseudonymous *Amazons* will come out in a new edition this November from Scribner, still under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. The book’s subtitle, “An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League,” pretty succinctly sums up the plot of this fictitious autobiography. It’s 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.…

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