Pee Wees, Rich Cohen
Pee Wees, Rich Cohen
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Pee Wees
Confessions of a Hockey Parent

Author: Rich Cohen

Narrator: Tim Campbell

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2021

Synopsis

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

About Rich Cohen

Rich Cohen is the New York Times-bestselling author of Tough Jews, Monsters, Sweet and Low, The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, The Chicago Cubs, and The Last Pirate of New York, and, with Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. He is the cocreator of the HBO series Vinyl, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and a writer at large for Air Mail. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken

At first, I thought this was just a memoir of a dad watching his son play hockey and was ready to give a three-star rating. Rich Cohen is a good writer; I loved his books on the 1985 Chicago Bears and the curse surrounding the Chicago Cubs and his look at traveling with the Rolling Stones (The Sun a......more

Goodreads review by Luke

Need to call this out for what it is: another wise parent with “special knowledge” knowing more about his child’s coaches and his child succeeding despite these other folks. Although he readily admits to the insanity of hockey parents, I am curious as to his self-examination of his participation in......more

Goodreads review by Matt

This just might be the funniest book I’ve come across. An hilarious, but true, look at youth sports, in this case, hockey. Rich tells it like it is; capturing all of the parent cliques, parent coaches follies, politics, pre-arranged tryouts etc. Absolutely historical without trying to be a book of h......more

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