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A New York Times bestselling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey Rich Cohen, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, turns his attention to matters closer to home: his son’s elite Pee Wee hockey team and himself, a former player and a devoted hockey parent. In Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, Cohen takes us through a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey, Pee Wees follows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the twelve-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, conniving, and cursing in the stands. It is a book about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“Cohen scores with this heartfelt account of watching?and agonizing over?his eleven-year-old son’s season playing kids’ competitive hockey…Cohen provides a fascinating glimpse into the players’ egos and excels in profiling the parents and coaches who live and die with each shift in their children’s fortunes.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Includ[es] all the ups and downs and personalities and a close-up, honest examination of the motivations behind his own devotion to the sport.”
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“Cohen scores with this heartfelt account of watching―and agonizing over―his eleven-year-old son’s season playing kids’ competitive hockey…Cohen provides a fascinating glimpse into the players’ egos and excels in profiling the parents and coaches who live and die with each shift in their children’s fortunes.”
— Publishers Weekly
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About Rich Cohen
Rich Cohen is the author of several works of nonfiction, including co-author of the New York Times bestseller Unstoppable. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and has written for the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among others. He has won the Great Lakes Book Award and the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and his stories have been included in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing.
About Tim Campbell
Tim Campbell, winner of AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a narrator and actor based in Los Angeles, California. He studied at the University of California and earned a BA in music and theater and a certification from the prestigious Great Books program at Pepperdine University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is also a classically trained singer and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Opera Chorus, as well as on studio soundtracks for film and television.