TY  - BOOK
AU  - B.S. Johnson
TI  - House Mother Normal
SN  - 9780811222143
U1  - English JOH 
N2  - 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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