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

  • 001 MouthToMouth Open

    Duration: 32s
  • 002 MouthToMouth One

    Duration: 14min
  • 003 MouthToMouth Two

    Duration: 03min
  • 004 MouthToMouth Three

    Duration: 07min
  • 005 MouthToMouth Four

    Duration: 09min
  • 006 MouthToMouth Five

    Duration: 03min
  • 007 MouthToMouth Six

    Duration: 04min
  • 008 MouthToMouth Seven

    Duration: 05min
  • 009 MouthToMouth Eight

    Duration: 08min
  • 010 MouthToMouth Nine

    Duration: 06min
  • 011 MouthToMouth Ten

    Duration: 12min
  • 012 MouthToMouth Eleven

    Duration: 03min
  • 013 MouthToMouth Twelve

    Duration: 02min
  • 014 MouthToMouth Thirteen

    Duration: 04min
  • 015 MouthToMouth Fourteen

    Duration: 02min
  • 016 MouthToMouth Fifteen

    Duration: 01min
  • 017 MouthToMouth Sixteen

    Duration: 03min
  • 018 MouthToMouth Seventeen

    Duration: 02min
  • 019 MouthToMouth Eighteen

    Duration: 35s
  • 020 MouthToMouth Nineteen

    Duration: 03min
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