House Mother Normal

House Mother Normal
Author :
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 144
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780811225854
ISBN-13 : 0811225852
Rating : 4/5 (852 Downloads)

Book Synopsis House Mother Normal by : B.S. Johnson

Download or read book House Mother Normal written by B.S. Johnson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


House Mother Normal Related Books