A review by graywacke
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner

reflective medium-paced

3.5

Faulkner's second novel has a lot of issues. A wealthy widow in New Orleans takes her niece, a small crowd of local artists on her yacht. Unfortunately, the artists aren't really her friends and don't cooperate with her plans. Then the boat goes aground. As does the text, which sputters through events with lusty mostly middle-aged men, and a pair of teenage lightly dressed girls. Sometimes it manages to be erotic, but mostly more mundane, intentionally disturbing, with scattered decently serious thoughts on writing and art. One character reads poems out loud to the others, presented to reader. Ultimately it has entertaining elements that I'll continue to think about, but with atrocious pacing. I kind of wish they had somehow been stranded in New Orleans instead in a mosquito-infested lake.