House Mother Normal, subtitled “A Geriatric Comedy,” is the English writer B. S. Johnson’s fifth novel. Unusual in both its subject and structure, this novel is a remarkable study of old age, stripped of sentimentality and spiked with bizarre language and perceptions. Made up of eight monologues describing a single day at a nursing home, House Mother Normal explores the failing minds of the elderly with precision, humor, and unflagging compassion, and Johnson achieves, with inventiveness and escalating absurdity, a vivid multidimensional effect.
Author: B. S. Johnson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 08/23/2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780811222143
Language: English
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