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House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy [Audiobook]

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House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy [Audiobook]

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy [Audiobook]
English | November 09, 2017 | ASIN: B0773XX22J | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 24m | 123 MB
Author: B. S. Johnson | Narrators: Rosalyn Landor, Stephen Thorne, Maggie Mash

In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice.

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy is Johnson's most richly characterised, humane and sympathetic work. Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, and each takes it in turn to relay the proceedings of the evening from their own individual perspective.

By virtue of the novel's clever structure, the listener's comprehension of events is limited so as to allow them a powerful experience: Johnson's humorous yet deeply compassionate depiction of what it means to live life and grow old.