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Synopsis
House Mother Normal is a remarkable study of old age. It is also a major modern novel. B.S. Johnson's achievement in this 'geriatric comedy' was to deploy his prodigious technical skills and inventiveness to explore the minds of the old with precision, humour and unflagging compassion. He recognised its technical difficulties: 'What I wanted to do was to take an evening in an old people's home, and see a single set of events through the eyes of not less than eight old people. Due to the various deformities and deficiencies of the inmates, these events would seem to be progressively "abnormal" to the reader. At the end there would be the viewpoint of the House Mother, an apparently "normal" person, and the events themselves would then be seen to be so bizarre that everything that had come before would seem "normal" by comparison.' Making each speaker's section follow the same chronological sequence, not only page by page but also line by line, he achieves a disturbingly vivid multi-dimensional effect.
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B.S. Johnson (1933-73) was praised by Anthony Burgess as 'the only living British author with the guts to reassess the novel form, extend its scope and still work in a recognisable fictional tradition'. Samuel Beckett described him as 'a most gifted writer and deserving of far more attention than he has received up to now'. First published in 1971, House Mother Normal was his fifth and finest novel.
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House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1984
ISBN 10 : 0906427622
ISBN 13 : 9780906427620
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