A Few CorrectionsA Few Corrections
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Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, 1st ed, No Longer Available.Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsThis 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.
As the narrator sets out to correct the errors he discovers in the obituary of Wesley Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded Midwestern businessman, he discovers that Wesley had led a far more complex, tangled, and ambiguous life than he had presented to the world. By the author of The Friends of Freeland. 15,000 first printing.
As the narrator corrects the errors he discovers in the obituary of Wesley Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded Midwestern businessman, he discovers that Wesley led a far more complex life than he presented to the world.
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.
As the narrator sets out to correct the errors he discovers in the obituary of Wesley Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded Midwestern businessman, he discovers that Wesley had led a far more complex, tangled, and ambiguous life than he had presented to the world. By the author of The Friends of Freeland. 15,000 first printing.
As the narrator corrects the errors he discovers in the obituary of Wesley Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded Midwestern businessman, he discovers that Wesley led a far more complex life than he presented to the world.
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- New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001.
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