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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“Weesner’s perfectly restrained and subtle
exploration of the characters’ painful and often difficult emotions caused me
to have an intimate and emotional connection to a character and story of such a
seemingly distant world. It taught me that even the most personal of stories
can be universal and it is with this belief that I have adapted The Car
Thief into what I hope will be a film that does some justice to the
most beautiful novel that ever broke my heart.”
—
Dara Van Dusen, filmmaker