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.
| ISBN: | 9780811222143 |
| Publication date: | 9th September 2016 |
| Author: | BS Johnson |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |