| Author: | B.S. Johnson | ISBN: | 9780811225854 |
| Publisher: | New Directions | Publication: | August 23, 2016 |
| Imprint: | New Directions | Language: | English |
| Author: | B.S. Johnson |
| ISBN: | 9780811225854 |
| Publisher: | New Directions |
| Publication: | August 23, 2016 |
| Imprint: | New Directions |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
