Title: The car thief
First published: 1972
Description: The car thief is Alex Housman. He is sixteen and he steals cars because he cannot help himself. His parents are divorced and his father is an alcoholic. After being sent to a detention home, we are left wondering what will happen to him next.

Adolescence.
Subjects: Fiction, Teenage boys, Automobile thieves, Fathers and sons, Children of alcoholics, Fiction, general, Fathers and sons, fiction