false 6324914 8 From <b>Ragtime </b>and <b>Billy Bathgate</b> to <b>The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair,</b> and <b>The March</b>, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with <b>Homer & Langle</b>y, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.<br><br>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. <br><br>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. 6510464 1 9 1990 Homer and Langley: A Novel total:415|5:58|4:168|3:139|2:39|1:11| 415 1468 1196 188 4 4 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 14:09:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 09:05:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 14:46:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 10:41:38 -0700 2009 1
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the writing of e.l. doctorow has always the depth of wells and bears the cadences of those depths. he brings into his prose the bitterness of philosophy and of poetry. in his latest novel, doctorow explores the bitterness of history in its most concentrated...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 03 07:12:50 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:25:08 -0700 2009 Homer & Langley, the author's treatment of the history was a negative for some critics. Some felt that the na...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 21:32:29 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:12:04 -0700 2009 Ragtime. However, the real life of the Collyer brothers is so interesting and heartbreaking it doesn't need thirty extra years, various young women and other devices out of the writer's toolbox. ...more...]]>