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House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy
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by B. S. Johnson
Sales Rank: 533073
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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation April 1, 1986
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811209814
ISBN-13: 978-0811209816
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
From Library Journal
Johnson's fifth novel, originally published in Britain in 1971, takes place during Social Evening at a home for the aged. The night's bizarre activities (among them a game of Pass the Parcel in which the "prize" is a package of dog droppings) are seen through the eyes of first one resident then another, until we come to despotic House Mother herself. The picture that emerges is of a shabby band of survivors, some of them scarcely conscious, lorded over by a psychopath: "I disgust them in order that they may not be disgusted with themselves." An original if dispiriting performance, part experiment, part dirty joke, for collections of modernist fiction. Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Product Description
James Joyce's/Finnegan's Wake. A Symposium featuring Beckett, Jolas, and more.
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