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An edition of A few corrections: a novel (2001)

A few corrections

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"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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English
Pages
273

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A Few Corrections: A Novel
March 12, 2002, Vintage
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Cover of: A few corrections
A few corrections: a novel
2001, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: A few corrections
A few corrections: a novel
2001, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction

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Pagination
273 p. ;
Number of pages
273

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Open Library
OL23245646M
Internet Archive
fewcorrectionsno00leit
ISBN 10
0375411496, 037572558X
LCCN
00062010
Library Thing
319014
Goodreads
962509
357483

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"There are at least a dozen errors here."

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