Söndags-smakbit # 6

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Jag läser Mouth to mouth av Antoine Wilson

”A propulsive novel in which a successful art dealer confesses the story of his rise to a former classmate in an airpot bar – a story that begins with his rescue and resuscitation of a drowning man with whom he will become inextricably linked, to disturbing ends”

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Smakbit sid. 12

” He wondered what could have possibly happened with his predecessor to make her cross the street in tears. Had it been him they would have been tears of boredom. He remembered what his mother had told him when he was a child: -Waiting is doing what you don´t want until you get to do what you want. He would bide his time in the new sinecure, waiting for Francis.”

sid 130

”Eye or no eye, he should have an opinion about these pieces, shouldn´t he? He found the painting by Francis´s artist, a thickly impastoed palette knife production in dark tones that could have just as easily been a patch of dirt in a field somewhere, or a compost pile.”