A Few Corrections: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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According to his obituary, Wesley Sultan died at the age of 63, leaving behind threechildren, a wife, an ex-wife, a brother, a sister, and a life-long business to his obituary, Wesley Sultan led a quiet, respectable, and unremarkablelife. Our narrator, however, is about to discover that nothing could be further fromthe truth.

Using Sultan’s obituary as a road map to the unknown terrain of the manhimself, our narrator discovers dead-ends, wrong turns, and unexpected destinationsin every line. As he travels from the bleak Michigan winter to the steamy streetsof Miami to the idyllic French countryside, in search of those who knew Wesley best,he gradually reconstructs the life of an exceptionally handsome, ambitious, and deceptiveman to whom women were everything. And as the margins of the obituary fill with handwrittencorrections, as details emerge and facts are revised, our mysterious narrator–whoseinterest in his quarry is far from random–has no choice but to confront the truthof his own life as well.