EAN: 9781982181802

MOUTH TO MOUTH - ANTOINE WILSON GEBUNDEN

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.

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