House Mother Normal - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811222143ISBN-10:811222144UPC:9780811222143Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, ClassicsSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCTJ7B84NA
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811222143ISBN-10:811222144UPC:9780811222143Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, ClassicsSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCTJ7B84NA
Johnson, B. S.: - B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (1933-1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and filmmaker. He was born into a working-class family, was evacuated from London during World War II, and left school at sixteen to work as an accountant. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, and with this knowledge, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London. After he graduated Johnson wrote a series of increasingly experimental and often acutely personal novels. A critically acclaimed film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry was released in 2000. Increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide.
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