Described as “one of the best coming-of-age novels
of the twentieth century,” Theodore Weesner’s modern American classic is now on
audio!
It’s 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth
car and frankly doesn’t 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.
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