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House Mother Normal
By B.S. Johnson
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By B.S. Johnson
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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 ...You May Also Like
