Mouth to Mouth: ‘Gripping... Shades of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt’ Vogue

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The reader is left to judge if Jeff was an opportunistic jerk exploiting the dealer, who is a jerk himself. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Turning up at the airport for his flight, the narrator of this story bumps into his old f

This is an excellent story that is best read in one long or two medium sessions to fully immerse in the truly brilliant narrative. Antoine Wilson is the author of the novels MOUTH TO MOUTH (2022), PANORAMA CITY (2012) and THE INTERLOPER (2007). I wanted him to be good, though, I wanted to feel that I had done a good thing not only for him but for all the people he came in contact with. There’s plenty of satisfaction in watching the characters navigate the blurred line between plausibility and truth.His work has appeared in The Paris Review , Story Quarterly , and Best New American Voices, among other publications, and he is a contributing editor of the literary magazine A Public Space as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books . It concerns Jeff Cook, a former classmate the man barely knew but who, he admits, “was one of those minor players from the past who claimed for himself an outsize role in my memories.

His work has appeared in The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, and Best New American Voices, among other publications, and he is a contributing editor of A Public Space. A] taut, compulsive chamber piece of a novel, which you’ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting… Mouth to Mouth is an elegantly told and supremely gripping tale of serendipity and deception—and delivers a brilliant ending that will leave you guessing about everything that came before.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

The flight delay becomes protracted (they’re both booked on the same flight, albeit at different ends of the aeroplane) and as the two men talk on more of Cook’s story is revealed. Turning up at the airport for his flight, the narrator of this story bumps into his old friend, Jeff, who he knew from university.I had to see how things played out for Jeff, with a constant sense of hesitancy about what was to come. We learn that he’s travelling cheaply, but having already caught a redeye from the West Coast to JFK, New York he’s now learned that his onward flight has been delayed. It is one of those novels where one person shares their story in great detail, and it does a better job at providing the setup for that situation.

He is a contributing editor of the literary journal A Public Space as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books. After college, Cook explains, his girlfriend dumped him and broke his heart, and one night he wandered to the sea alone. Jeff finds himself drawn closer and closer to Francis Arsenault, an art dealer with a supposed remarkable ‘eye’ for what will sell, a skill that doesn’t seem to extend to recognising the man who saved his life. Although Francis doesn’t seem to recognize Jeff, he soon takes him under his wing, initiating him into a world of unimaginable power and wealth.Ripley novel, as the tale-teller, a man once admired by our protagonist when they were both in collage, plays with the other's attraction as he unspools his tale, in which his old admirer is a alternately charmed and alarmed by a fantastic tale of love, fate and a meteoric rise--set in the world contemporary art.