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The Comeback
A no-holds-barred saire about ethnicity, racism and revolutionary politics, of undercover police, academics, psychiatrists and athletes. Our Puerto Rican-Eskimo hero is a collegiate ice-hockey star who goes through the throes of a classic identity crisis and is threatened by a zany team of Freudians.
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First published January 1, 1985
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January 6, 2026
Random library pull.
80 percent of this book seemed engineered to be interesting to me. Intersections of hockey, ethnicity, and sports psychology— all written in a delightfully absurd tone.
I was hooked (ha) until the hospital climax and then this book just fizzled out for me. There was such a rich world that narrowed to two people sitting and talking and then finding a third person to talk with— who just so happened to be the author— when they needed to wrap things up for good.
80 percent of this book seemed engineered to be interesting to me. Intersections of hockey, ethnicity, and sports psychology— all written in a delightfully absurd tone.
I was hooked (ha) until the hospital climax and then this book just fizzled out for me. There was such a rich world that narrowed to two people sitting and talking and then finding a third person to talk with— who just so happened to be the author— when they needed to wrap things up for good.
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