House Mother Normal — B.S. Johnson

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Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • May-1986
  • New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 0811209814
  • ISBN13: 9780811209816

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  • Paperback
  • Feb-2013
  • Pan Books (UK)
  • ISBN: 1447200381
  • ISBN13: 9781447200383

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  • Trade Paperback
  • Aug-2016
  • New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 0811222144
  • ISBN13: 9780811222143

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eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Aug-2016
  • New Directions

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Audio editions:

  • Audible
  • Nov-2017
  • Audible Studios

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  • MP3 CD
  • Feb-2018
  • Brilliance Audio
  • ISBN: 1543685595
  • ISBN13: 9781543685596

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Description
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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