A Few Corrections: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"Beautifully drawn with the quiet assurance of the master builder. . . . Leithauser is a writer of prodigious gifts." --Baltimore Sun

"A pleasure to read, full of deft touches and quirky insights." --Los Angeles Times

"A tour de force in narrative construction. . . . Leithauser has a poet's eye for defining details. . . . [He] demonstrates the craftsmanship of a master . . . and displays such bravado that it is a delight to see him at work. . . . Throughout, [he] displays an enviable control over his material, with a magician's feel for what to reveal and when." --The Washington Post Book World

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. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.