β Scribed by E.L. Doctorow
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers--the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley's proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers--wars, political movements, technological advances--and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.
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A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century.
A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century.
### Amazon.com Review **Amazon Exclusive: E.L. Doctorow on _Homer & Langley_** **E. L. Doctorow's novels include _The March_ , _City of God_ , _The Waterworks_ , _Welcome to Hard Times_ , _The Book of Daniel_ , _Ragtime_ , _Loon Lake_ , _Lives of the Poets_ , _World's Fair_ , and _Billy Bathgate_.
Β«Soy Homer, el hermano ciego. No perdΓ la vista de golpe, fue como en el cine: un fundido lento.Β» AsΓ empieza la historia de los hermanos Collyer que conmocionΓ³ al Nueva York de finales de los aΓ±os cuarenta cuando los encontraron sepultados bajo toneladas de basura en su mansiΓ³n de la Quinta Avenida
SUMMARY: From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World's Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Home