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Aug 31, 2009 · The last name of the title characters of E. L. Doctorow’s new novel, “Homer & Langley,” is Collyer, and the book’s brothers do, in fact, turn out to be versions of those infamous New York ...
Over the decades, people come and go - lovers, a gangster, a jazz musician, a flock of hippies, but finally Homer and Langley are irrevocably alone, prisoners in their fortress of rubbish, trapped in their warped form of brotherly love. Wizardly Doctorow presents an ingenious, haunting odyssey that unfolds within a labyrinth built out of the ...
Aug 30, 2009 · Homer & Langley. A Novel. E.L. Doctorow. Random House: 208 pp., $26. E.L. Doctorow is the Lon Chaney of American fiction: man of a thousand faces, portrayer of a ...
Jan 7, 2010 · 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Aug 19, 2009 · Doctorow has H&L's parents dying within a few weeks of each other, during the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918. Reality: Dr. Collyer died in 1923; Mrs. Collyer in 1929. Doctorow writes that Langley was the older brother. Reality: Homer Collyer was born on Nov. 6, 1881. Langley was born six years later in 1887. Both men graduated from Columbia ...
