The Car Thief

Name: The Car Thief
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Theodore Weesner
ISBN: 9781482927016

Author: Theodore Weesner

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 08/15/2013

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Described as one of the best coming-of-age novels of the twentieth century, Theodore Weesners modern American classic is now on audio! Its 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesnt know why. His divorced, working-class father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy plant in Detroit and looks forward to the flask in his glove compartment and the open bottles of booze in his Flint, Michigan, home. Broke and fighting to survive, Alex and his father face the realities of estrangement, incarceration, and even violence as their lives unfold toward the climactic episode that a New York Times reviewer called one of the most profoundly powerful in American fiction. In this rich, beautifully crafted story, Weesner has written a transcendent piece of literature in deceptively simple language, painting a powerful portrait of a father and a son otherwise invisible among the mundane, everyday details of life in blue-collar America. It is a true and enduring American classic.

About Theodore Weesner

Theodore Weesner, born in Flint, Michigan, is aptly described as a “writers’ writer” by the larger literary community. His short works have been published
in the New Yorker, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, the Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories. His novels—including The
True Detective, Winning the City, and Harbor Lights—have been
published to great critical acclaim in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, Harper’s, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Chicago
Tribune, Boston magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, to name a few. He lives and works
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tony

The Car Thief is about a teen with so much angst, it brought me straight back to high school. Alex Housman is a kid from Flint, Michigan who steals cars but wouldn't be able to tell you why. I can imagine James Dean at his best trying to play this guy's pain, but not quite capturing it. He loves his......more

Goodreads review by Tara

Wow, what an inspiring book! THE CAR THEIF is a beautifully crafted coming of age story. We see the story through Alex Housman’s eyes. A young boy living in a very broken world in the late 1950’s. He lives alone with his alcoholic father. His mother has left and started a new life with a new husband......more

Goodreads review by Mia

This review and more can be read on my blog here: The Muses Circle The whole process of reading and reviewing this book came about in a completely different way. I am used to getting author requests, but this is the first time I've been approached by a publicist. Serena Ainesly, head publicist for Bl......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

This story is a “come to Jesus” moment for anyone who reads it. It tells us of Alex, the son and of Curly, the father. They are together on different planes - the same house, sleeping, eating, living together barely speaking, barely existing most of the time. Mom left with the young brother, Howard,......more