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Homer & Langley : a novel / E.L. Doctorow.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400064946 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 208 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2009.
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| Subject: | Collyer, Homer Lusk, 1881-1947 > Fiction. Collyer, Langley, 1885-1947 > Fiction. Brothers > Fiction. Eccentrics and eccentricities > Fiction. Recluses > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. |
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| Lakeshore Branch | LP FIC Docto | 31681002080885 | LARGEPT | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A tale inspired by a true story finds the blind Homer Collyer closeted within a once-grand Fifth Avenue mansion with his damaged brother and remembering a life marked by colorful characters, political events, and technological achievements. - Baker & Taylor
A tale inspired by a true story finds the blind Homer Collyer closeted within a once-grand Fifth Avenue mansion with his damaged brother and remembering a life marked by colorful characters, political events, and technological achievements. By the National Book Award-winning author ofBilly Bathgate. - Blackwell North Amer
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. - Random House, Inc.
From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, Worldâs 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.
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothersâthe 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 Langleyâs proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothersâwars, political movements, technological advancesâand 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.
Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New Yorkâs fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer.
