Amazons
An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League
- Published: 19 November 2026
- ISBN: 9781405997027
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
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
By featuring a woman in a hypermasculine environment, the novel revels in opportunities to explore gender roles and lust as comic themes
The Times
Closest thing we have to a great American hockey novel
Keith Gessen
I don't want to talk about it
Don DeLillo, epigraph to AMAZONS
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
Written with bone-dry wit, pitch-perfect dialogue and edgy social satire
New York Times