Praise for Harbor Lights

“…a beautifully written, harrowing novel…about agonizing choices and heartbreaking truths that vividly dramatizes the consequences of not courageously and honestly facing those truths.”

–Library Journal

 

“The triumph of Weesner’s rigorously realistic story is that we come to know his characters as fully as we know ourselves, yet are as startled by the directions in which their emotions lead them as we are by the unpredictability of their own lives. An unforgettable novel, unquestionably Weesner’s best.”

–Kirkus Reviews

 

 

Praise for Winning the City Redux

“A courageous author… No one better has a handle on heart-break—he reminds me of a latter-day Dreiser who writes better, stylistically… What is so special about Weesner is the emotional precision.”

–Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune

 

“…a knockout! …Dale’s struggle to win in a world whose odds are stacked against outsiders… leads to a heartbreaking kind of disillusionment and courageous maturity.”

–Dan Wakefield, Boston Globe

 

“Winning the City tells of a young athlete ‘nearly driven out of mind with all he knew,’ but Mr. Weesner’s own mind is superbly clear on every page. He is an extraordinary writer.”

–Richard Yates, New York Times Bestselling Author of Revolution Road

 

 

Praise for The True Detective

“…a compulsively readable thriller that is to the nuclear family what Hiroshima was to the nuclear bomb, and the best account yet of its detonation.”

–Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune

 

“…while it deals with a sensationa, even loaded subject, ultimately I’d say the novel is that rare achievement, a wise book, and maybe the saddest book I’ve read. That it’s also a page-turner is a marvel.”

–Stewart O’Nan, acclaimed author of Emily Alone and Last Night at the Lobster.

 

 

Praise for The Car Thief

“A remarkable, gripping first novel.”

–Joyce Carol Oates

 

“…a poignant and beautifully written novel, so true and so excruciatingly painful that one can’t read it without feeling the knife’s cruel blade in the heart.”

–Margaret Manning, The Boston Globe

 

“A simply marvelous novel. Alex emerges from it as a kind of blue-collar Holden Caulfield.”

–Kansas City Star