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House Mother Normal
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ISBN10: 0811222144
ISBN13: 9780811222143
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811222143
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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