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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…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2002Vintage · 273 pages · 9780375725586
- Other · English · 2001A.A. Knopf · 273 pages · 9780375411496
Psychological fictionFictionBusinessmenMiddle West in fictionBusinessmen in fictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, psychologicalMiddle west, fiction





