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House Mother Normal

✍ Scribed by Johnson, B S

Book ID: 109084093
Publisher: New Directions
Year: 2016
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 473 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780811222143

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✦ Synopsis

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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