A Few Corrections
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- Synopsis
- This moving and resourceful novel by one of our most acclaimed writers opens with a newspaper obituary. The deceased is Wesley Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded midwestern businessman. But the novel's first sentence hints of mysterious revelations to come: "There are at least a dozen errors here." Step by step, the book's narrator--himself mysterious--sets about correcting the errors, investigating the deceptive but appealing Wesley Sultan by way of the lives he touched and often manipulated: his wives, his siblings, his girlfriends, his children. Each chapter reprints the obituary but each time with a new handwritten amendment--correction piling upon correction until the original has been effectively demolished. It seems that businessman Wesley--handsome, dapper, flirtatious, and ambitious--lived a far more tangled and ambiguous life than the one he presented to the world. A Few Corrections is both a psychological detective story and an epitaph for a vanishing figure--the gallant, sports-car-driving local Romeo who flourished in midcentury throughout small-town America. Written with humor and lyrical dash, it is also a compelling novel that explores its subject with wit and a flowering tenderness.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307424334
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780375411496, 9780375725586
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books
- Date of Addition:
- 12/09/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Brad Leithauser
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.