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Homer and Langley

Homer and Langley

E.L. Doctorow
3.6/5 ( ratings)
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Named one of the best books of the year by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star and Booklist.

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.
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Young Readers
Release
February 01, 2011
ISBN
0349122598
ISBN 13
9780349122595

Homer and Langley

E.L. Doctorow
3.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Named one of the best books of the year by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star and Booklist.

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.
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Young Readers
Release
February 01, 2011
ISBN
0349122598
ISBN 13
9780349122595

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