Wheels (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 501 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books (1970)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553117696
• ISBN-13: 978-0553117691
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,131,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars contrived, but authoritive, April 16, 2004

By	Jeffrey Clinard "Jeffrey" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Wheels (Hardcover)

The automotive industry in the early 1970s - a time of race relations as well as car-builidng is ripe for Hailey's book. Sure, several parts of it are hacked on (particularly, the automotive dealer part of the book), but the insights are good.

Hailey does his research and always comes up with the idea that there are no easy answers. Hopefully, the reader understand that in the end, and realizes the world is full of compromises, not easy answers.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not to Standards, December 20, 2005

By	Boston Reader - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wheels (Mass Market Paperback)

I've read Hotel, Evening News and The Moneychangers so I picked this up based on Hailey's name only. Luckily I only spent a quarter on it at a library sale. I have ten pages left and am still trying to figure out what exactly is the plot. It's not a terrible read (I would have put it down if it was) but it never really gets going. Some of the characters are developed but the one I believe is supposed to the main character (Adam Trenton) is not. None of the characters are as developed as in the other books I have read by this author.

I'd pass on this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Circa 1971, Amazing Story Of The Motor City, June 2, 2009

By	Ed "Ed" (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wheels (Hardcover)

Arthur Hailey has shown that great writing can and does stand the test of time. "Wheels" takes place circa 1971 when American automobiles and the people that build them, were working three shifts, shiney, brand new automobiles being driven off of the assembly line, approx. one per minute.
Hailey brings all of his characters to life, from Adam Trenton a "go-getter" white-collar management member to Rollie Knight, a black street thug who finds he almost can make a better life for himself in "Wheels" as he is finally employed and off of the mean streets of inner-city Detroit.
As a lifelong "car person" fan/owner of an American Musclecar of the late 60s, early 70s I was truly amazed at how Mr. Hailey talked about innovations, ideas, designs circa 1971, that would find it's way into American cars ten, fifteen, twenty years later, including safety items. Mr. Hailey knows Detroit, and amongst today's strife in our American auto industry, take some time and read how it once was during Detroit's "Glory Days"!
You'll meet characters in "Wheels" you will never forget.