The Car Thief

By Theodore Weesner,

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Hailed by The Boston Globe as "so poignant and beautifully written, so true and painful, that one can't read it without feeling the knife's cruel blade in the heart," The Car Thief was first published to enormous popularity, and sold over half a million copies. Alex Housman is a kidā€¦

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I knew Ted Weesner. We taught creative writing at Emerson College. This is Tedā€™s first book which still gives me chills because of how filmic the prose isā€”as in stepping into a filmā€”only it is not only visual, it is visceral. You feel every part of this book and feel it deeply, sympathetically, and even though the main character is making mistakes his mistakes are your mistakes, his disappointments are your disappointments, his hopes are your hopes and thus his tragedy is yours to keep.

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