false 0 2009-10-03T23:55:07-07:00 1398050 140 2009-10-03T23:55:07-07:00 0 2009-10-03T14:14:42-07:00 1396416 88 2009-10-03T14:14:42-07:00 5 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 00:38:55 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 22:16:20 -0700 2009 "Two Great New Books on a New Kind of Apocalypse." The review covered both Doctorow's novel and Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem, stating:

Both novels make a reader ache for a city long gone. But they also let us know that the end of the world as we know it may only be the end of the world as we know it. What's truly scary is not that life will end but that it will continue in ever reduced circumstances.


It is in these circumstances that we find the Collyer brothers as Homer pounds away at the Braille typewriter Langley obtained for him, chronicling the story of their lives. Here are two men who have been through it all. Older brother Langley was returned back from the Great War as damaged goods only to learn that their parents had died during his abscence and his younger brother has taken up with a thieving maid. As the world ended for them, their lives continued on as relics from the past.
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