{"product_id":"dirtmouth-alan-singer-9781573661171","title":"Dirtmouth","description":"A mystery in two voices, \u003ci\u003eDirtmouth\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the grisly murder of a young woman on Blackman's Heath, an ancient execution site in the Irish bogs. A pair of archaeologists, the obese and decadent Kraft Dundeed and his furious protégé, Roscoe Taste, each contest the other's self-justifying account of the crime while professing passionate love for the victim. Two silences frame their quarrel: Cinna McDermond, the brutalized subject of her lovers' confessions, and a nameless Investigator, whose invisible presence embodies the reader. Against this background of subterranean savagery, the competing monologues struggle to unearth a violence that neither can fully remember nor forget. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDirtmouth\u003c\/i\u003e is the third in a triad of novels by Alan Singer which investigate the entanglements of memory, self, and duplicitous will. As in Singer's \u003ci\u003eMemory Wax\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Charnel Imp, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDirtmouth'\u003c\/i\u003es\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eluxuriant prose enacts its narrators' labyrinthine rationalizations, entangling action in grotesque imagery and dark insinuation, much as Blackman's Heath engulfs its Bronze Age victims. Singer's writing recalls the stylistic virtuosity of John Hawkes and Djuna Barnes and the obsessive ruminations of Beckett's and Poe's narrators. Drawing readers into an interrogation room as vast and constricted as the mind, \u003ci\u003eDirtmouth\u003c\/i\u003e explores the archaeology of passion, exhuming crimes that mirror our own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Singer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FC2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.54w x 0.64d","brand":"Alan Singer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485621498111,"sku":"9781573661171","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55fc8450-e4b3-4e6e-beba-f1c21253d81d.jpg?v=1778050442","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dirtmouth-alan-singer-9781573661171","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}