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      House Mother Normal

      by B.S. Johnson
      Published
      May 1986
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      210
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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 the elderly with precision, humor, and unflagging compassion, and Johnson achieves, with inventiveness and escalating absurdity, a vivid multidimensional effect.

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      May 1986 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN13 9780811209816 ISBN10 0811209814
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