Homer And Langley

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Eccentric lives unravel through decades in New York.

Recommended for readers who enjoy character-driven, historical fiction with a focus on family relationships. The unique feature of this book is its portrayal of the Collyer brothers, who became famous in real life for their eccentric and reclusive lives. Doctorow's storytelling skillfully captures the evolution of their relationship and struggles over many decades.

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Homer And Langley

Regular price RM56.48 MYR
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ISBN: 9780349122595
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM64.16 MYR
Authors: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House
Date of Publication: 2010-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: War, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.63
(rated by 11002 readers)

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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.
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Eccentric lives unravel through decades in New York.

Recommended for readers who enjoy character-driven, historical fiction with a focus on family relationships. The unique feature of this book is its portrayal of the Collyer brothers, who became famous in real life for their eccentric and reclusive lives. Doctorow's storytelling skillfully captures the evolution of their relationship and struggles over many decades.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.