B. S. Johnson: House Mother Normal
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- Kustantaja: NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780811222143
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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. '