A Few Corrections Book

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 novelâ??s first sentence hints of mysterious revelations to come: â??There are at least a dozen errors here.â?Step by step, the bookâ??s narratorâ??himself mysteriousâ??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 amendmentâ??correction piling upon correction until the original has been effectively demolished. It seems that businessman Wesleyâ??handsome, dapper, flirtatious, and ambitiousâ??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 figureâ??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.Read More