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Author:

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.

Title:

Homer & Langley : a novel / E.L. Doctorow.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

208 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Collyer, Homer Lusk,--1881-1947--Fiction.
Collyer, Langley,--1885-1947--Fiction.
Brothers--New York--New York--Fiction.
Recluses--New York--New York--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Brothers--New York--New York--Fiction.
Fictional Works
Collyer, Homer Lusk,--1881-1947.
Collyer, Langley,--1885-1947.
Brothers.
Eccentrics and eccentricities.
Recluses.
New York (State)--New York.
Collyer, Homer Lusk,--1881-1947--Fiction.
Collyer, Langley,--1885-1947--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Recluses--New York--New York--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Hermits--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
American fiction.

Summary:

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. --from publisher's website.
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.

Series:

New York Times best sellers.

ISBN:

1400064945
9781400064946

OCLC:

(OCoLC)290470025

LCCN:

2009006959

Locations:

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines) — Copies: 13