Friday, November 20, 2009

Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow

Recommended by JoAnn
FIC Doctorow

Based on the lives of the real Collyer brothers, famous recluses found dead in their Fifth Avenue , N.Y. brownstone in 1947, this imaginative story is brilliantly conceived and executed by Doctorow. Homer is blind, but we "see" everything through him: a house cluttered to capacity, an intuitive and loyal brother, interesting personalities coming and going in the house, and their struggle to survive and find meaning in their lives.


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