Penguin Modern Stories: No. 7

Literature & Fiction

Yehuda Amichai

anthony-burgess

SUSAN HILL

B.S. Johnson

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (King Penguin)

[The Unfortunates] [by: B. S. Johnson]

Picador

Reissued for the first time in many years, and for the first time together, this omnibus contains B.S. Johnson's most famous and critically acclaimed novels. "Albert Angelo" (1964) was Johnson's second novel. The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher through economic necessity, and as his character begins to question what he wants to achieve, Johnson attempts to reproduce the dissatisfactions and disappointments we experience as an inevitable part of life. "Trawl" (1966) is Johnson's convincingly authentic and harrowing attempt to describe the human condition, as seen through the eyes of the solitary passenger on board a deep-water trawler. "House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy" (1971) is a remarkable study of old age as the same events are relayed through the eyes of eight different inmates of an old people's home.

Omnibus

Digging out old notebooks from her past, author B. S. Johnson shares raw, strange emotions that helped pull her through some of the most challenging times in her life.

Rhymes from Darker Times

Sweatshoppe Publications

A wild, experimental, polyphonic novel, recounting a typical day of diminishing returns at a nursing homeHouse 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.

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy

Quartet

Albert Angelo

Humor & Satire

Picador USA

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