House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy - Softcover

Johnson, B.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811209814 ISBN 13: 9780811209816

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1986

Synopsis

James Joyce's/Finnegan's Wake. A Symposium featuring Beckett, Jolas, and more.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The text explores the minds of the old with precision, humor, and unflagging compassion, and achieves through the author's inventiveness, a vivid multidimensional effect.

About the Author:

B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (1933-1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and filmmaker. He was born into a working-class family, was evacuated from London during World War II, and left school at sixteen to work as an accountant. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, and with this knowledge, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London. After he graduated Johnson wrote a series of increasingly experimental and often acutely personal novels. A critically acclaimed film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry was released in 2000. Increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0811209814
• ISBN 13: 9780811209816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210