House Mother Normal

House Mother Normal
ISBN-10
0811225852
ISBN-13
9780811225854
Category
Fiction
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2016-08-23
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Author
B.S. Johnson

Description

A wild, experimental, polyphonic novel, recounting a typical day of diminishing returns at a nursing home 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.

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