House Mother Normal

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ISBN-10: 0811222144
ISBN-13: 9780811222143
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 08/23/2016
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.40" W, 0.60" H

House Mother Normal

byB S Johnson

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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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A most gifted writer.–Samuel Beckett
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811222144
ISBN-13: 9780811222143
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 08/23/2016
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.40" W, 0.60" H
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