Mouth To Mouth: A Novel

  • Author: Antoine Wilson
  • Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 4:52:33
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Synopsis

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Awards

A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow burn à la Patricia Highsmith” (Oprah Daily). “You’ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting” (Vogue).


In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life—a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man.

Jeff reveals that after that traumatic, galvanizing morning on the beach, he was compelled to learn more about the man whose life he had saved, convinced that their fates were now entwined. But are we agents of our fate—or are we its pawns? Upon discovering that the man is renowned art dealer Francis Arsenault, Jeff begins to surreptitiously visit his Beverly Hills gallery. Although Francis does not seem to recognize him as the man who saved his life, he nevertheless casts his legendary eye on Jeff and sees something worthy. He takes the younger man under his wing, initiating him into his world, where knowledge, taste, and access are currency; a world where value is constantly shifting and calling into question what is real, and what matters. The paths of the two men come together and diverge in dizzying ways until the novel’s staggering ending.

Sly, suspenseful, and “gloriously addicting” (BuzzFeed),?Mouth to Mouth?masterfully blurs the line between opportunity and exploitation, self-respect and self-delusion, fact and fiction—exposing the myriad ways we deceive each other, and ourselves.

Chapters

  • 021 MouthToMouth Twenty

    Duration: 06min
  • 022 MouthToMouth Twenty-One

    Duration: 01min
  • 023 MouthToMouth Twenty-Two

    Duration: 07min
  • 024 MouthToMouth Twenty-Three

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  • 025 MouthToMouth Twenty-Four

    Duration: 04min
  • 026 MouthToMouth Twenty-Five

    Duration: 03min
  • 027 MouthToMouth Twenty-Six

    Duration: 04min
  • 028 MouthToMouth Twenty-Seven

    Duration: 03min
  • 029 MouthToMouth Twenty-Eight

    Duration: 04min
  • 030 MouthToMouth Twenty-Nine

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  • 031 MouthToMouth Thirty

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  • 032 MouthToMouth Thirty-One

    Duration: 23s
  • 033 MouthToMouth Thirty-Two

    Duration: 04min
  • 034 MouthToMouth Thirty-Three

    Duration: 10min
  • 035 MouthToMouth Thirty-Four

    Duration: 06min
  • 036 MouthToMouth Thirty-Five

    Duration: 01min
  • 037 MouthToMouth Thirty-Six

    Duration: 01min
  • 038 MouthToMouth Thirty-Seven

    Duration: 14min
  • 039 MouthToMouth Thirty-Eight

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  • 040 MouthToMouth Thirty-Nine

    Duration: 06min
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