{"id":1789,"date":"2021-04-08T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/?page_id=1789"},"modified":"2023-07-27T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T18:01:50","slug":"mouth-to-mouth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/mouth-to-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouth to Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now in Paperback
\nAVID READER PRESS
\n(SIMON & SCHUSTER) <\/strong><\/p>\n

EVENTS<\/a> \/ ORDER Mouth to Mouth<\/em><\/a><\/strong> \/ MEDIA Q&A<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Mouth to Mouth:<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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A successful art dealer confesses the story of his rise to a former classmate in an airport bar – a story that begins with his rescue and resuscitation of a drowning man, with whom he will become inextricably linked, to disturbing ends.<\/p>\n

With Highsmithian undertones and propulsive pacing, Mouth to Mouth<\/em> raises big questions\u2014about accountability, identity, morality and fate\u2014in a story both profound and compulsively readable.<\/p>\n

Praise for Mouth to Mouth<\/em><\/strong>:<\/h3>\n

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\nFEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LIST
\nFINALIST FOR THE PRIX FITZGERALD
\nLONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
\nFINALIST FOR THE CALIBA GOLDEN POPPY AWARD
\nA Los Angeles Times<\/em> BESTSELLER
\nA TIME<\/em> MUST-READ BOOK OF 2022
\nA Vogue<\/em> BEST BOOK of 2022
\nAN Esquire<\/em> BEST BOOK of 2022
\nA NPR<\/em> BEST BOOK of 2022
\nA CBC<\/em> BEST BOOK of 2022
\nSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP’S 10 NOTEWORTHY BOOKS OF 2022
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\u201c[An] enthralling literary puzzle\u2026 Wilson is a gorgeous writer, pulling you in and compelling you to keep reading. The story, and the story-within-the-story \u2014 the twists and turns, the attention lavished on motivation and emotion, the efforts to rationalize or at least explain strange or unsavory behavior \u2014 recall the cool prose of Paul Auster\u2026 This powerful, intoxicating book\u2019s greatest tension is that we have no idea where it is heading, right up to the shocking final sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Lyall, The New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cpropulsive, slim, and inventive\u2026 Mouth to Mouth [is a] Russian doll of a novel.\u201d
\nSloane Crosley, Departures<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIncredibly taut, with funny and brilliantly described scenes of the Los Angeles art world.\u201d\u2014Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[A] taut, compulsive chamber piece of a novel, which you\u2019ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting\u2026 Mouth to Mouth is an elegantly told and supremely gripping tale of serendipity and deception\u2014and delivers a brilliant ending that will leave you guessing about everything that came before.\u201d
\nVogue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA taut, heady thriller\u201d
\nLos Angeles Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWilson is a first-rate yarn spinner\u2026 [a] sly and energetic novel.\u201d
\nWashington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPsychologically complex and suspenseful until the literal last sentence, it uses every word of its 200 or so pages to the fullest.\u201d
\nNPR\u2019s Pop Culture Happy Hour<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWilson writes a compulsively readable narrative up to the very end.\u201d
\nLos Angeles Daily News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA little bomb of a novel\u201d
\nGateCrashers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA Gen-X Greek revenge fantasy\u201d
\nWashington Independent Review of Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCompelling\u201d
\nThe Toronto Star<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA storytelling triumph\u2026 this novel is intentional, focused and expertly delivered. Wilson captures the reader\u2019s attention from the beginning and holds it all the way to the end.\u201d
\nMichigan Daily<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI myself loved this riveting and smart novel. And: the perfect ending will make you gasp.\u201d
\nEdan Lepucki, The Millions<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA gloriously addicting tale of decisions and deception\u2026 Wilson\u2019s ending delivers.\u201d
\nBuzzFeed Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTightly coiled\u2026 Mouth to Mouth delivers a tidy story that also will make readers wonder how much of Jeff\u2019s story is true and how much is just a good yarn.\u201d
\nThe Sun Sentinel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201ca carefully sculpted masterpiece\u2026 Mouth to Mouth provokes deep philosophical questions about the nature of truth and fiction.\u201d
\nPowell\u2019s Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[A] roller-coaster ride of a novel.\u201d
\nAlta<\/em> Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cReminiscent of the cult classic film \u2018My Dinner with Andre\u2019\u2026 Antoine Wilson’s slyly disturbing and shrewd novel presents two college acquaintances who unexpectedly cross paths at an airport almost 20 years later\u2026. Stopping isn’t an option: that final sentence rewards readers with a didn’t-see-that-coming gut punch.\u201d
\nShelf Awareness<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[A] propulsive\u2026 page-turner\u2026 A deliciously nasty morality play in the guise of a thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirkus Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWilson\u2019s Mouth To Mouth<\/em> is the best book I\u2019ve read in ages. Narratively ingenious, delicately written, intriguingly plotted, it is literature of the highest quality. I see you now, dear Reader, with this novel in your hand and already losing track of time\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Sean Greer<\/strong>, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAntoine Wilson has written a spellbinding novel of laserlike insight and exquisite technique that reveals how stories can function to conceal other stories. I read this book in one rapturous sitting, jotting down line after line, riveted until the final shocking, clarifying sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Manguso<\/strong>, author of Ongoingness<\/em> and 300 Arguments<\/em><\/p>\n

“Antoine Wilson’s Mouth to Mouth<\/em> is sleek, swift, and graceful, an agile novel of ideas with unexpectedly sharp teeth.”<\/p>\n

Lauren Groff<\/strong>, author of Fates and Furies<\/em> and Matrix<\/em><\/p>\n

“The sinewy and mesmerizing narrative of Antoine Wilson\u2019s masterful novel aims straight at the heart of the mythologized self, which, like the world of art and commerce that provides the story\u2019s backdrop, trades in all forms of performance and deception. Not unlike the novel itself, which asks us to believe and doubt and then believe again within the space of a single sentence. Wilson\u2019s on a high wire and he never makes a wrong move.”<\/p>\n

Marisa Silver<\/strong>, author of Little Nothing<\/em> and The Mysteries<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCompulsively readable. This austere and addictive novel interrogates the very nature of identity, destiny and storytelling.”<\/p>\n

Adam Johnson<\/strong>, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAntoine Wilson has written a stunner of a novel. Mouth to Mouth<\/em> shook and thrilled me from the first page to the last.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Alarc\u00f3n<\/strong>, author of The King is Always Above the People<\/em> and At Night We Walk in Circles<\/em><\/p>\n

“A fascinating contemporary twist on the classic \u2018as told to\u2019 novel, Mouth To Mouth<\/em> strands two old accquaintances in an airport VIP lounge, where we are alternately charmed and alarmed by a fantastic tale of love, fate and a meteoric rise in the art world. Mesmerizing.”<\/p>\n

Janet Fitch<\/strong>, author of Chimes of a Lost Cathedral<\/em> and Paint It Black<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Mouth to Mouth<\/em> is that rarity, a perfect narrative machine, working by its own laws. The cool nervous clarity of the prose enmeshes the reader in a trap of complicity, one snapping shut on narrator and reader at the same instant. Bravo.”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Lethem<\/strong>, author of The Arrest<\/em> and The Feral Detective<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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