Summary:

"This novel opens with a newspaper obituary. The deceased is Wesley
Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded mid-western
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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Dewey Class: 813.54 -- Fiction

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: 273 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition Info: (trade pbk.)

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