9780739328675
Homer & Langley: A Novel
E.L. Doctorow
ISBN 13: 9780739328675
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Softcover
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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. (Historical fiction). Simultaneous
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"Wizardly Doctorow presents an ingenious, haunting odyssey that unfolds within a labyrinth built out of the detritus of war and excess." (starred review)
Donna Seaman, Booklist Upfront, 07/01/2009
Review:"[A] beautiful and haunting novel....Doctorow is clear and compassionate in detailing [the brothers'] stunted emotions and phobias, and he creates a surprising kind of suspense as the stuff piles up, and the house begins to close around them into a big, messy tomb....Doctorow's writing is so lithe, the book easily sustains all of its thematic musings - about technology and history and consumer culture, even the novelist as kind of housebound Quixote."
Jess Walter, Boston Globe, 08/30/2009
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Book Description: Random House Large Print, 2009. Softcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Large Print Edition. New LARGE PRINT paperback with no remainder mark. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; 0.8 x 9.1 x 6 Inches; 256 pages; 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.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. Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York’s 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.From the Hardcover edition. Bookseller Inventory # 36927 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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