E. L. Doctorow's novels include The March, City of God, The Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, and""Billy Bathgate. His work has been published in thirty-two languages. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. E. L. Doctorow lives in New York.
"Cunningly panoramic...Doctorow has packed this tale with episodes
of existential wonder that cpature the brothers in all their
fascinating wackiness." --Elle
"Doctorow paints on a sweeping historical canvas, imagining the
Collyer brothers as witness to the aspirations and transgressions
of 20th century America; yet this book's most powerfully moving
moments are the quiet ones, when the brothers relish a breath of
cool morning air, and each other's tragically exclusive company."
-- O Magazine
"Doctorow works his usual magic in bringing history to life and
larding it with disturbing implications...As with much of
Doctorow's masterful fiction, "Homer & Langley" turns the American
dream on its ear, offering us a glimpse of the dark side of our
national-and personal-eccentricities." -- BookPage
"Following the panoramic scope of "The March," Doctorow creates a
microcosmic and mythic tale of compulsion, alienation, and dark
metamorphosis inspired by the famously eccentric Collyer brothers
of New York City... Doctorow has Homer, who is blind, narrate with
deadpan humor and spellbinding precision...Over the decades, people
come and go-lovers, a gangster, a jazz musician, a flock of
hippies, but finally Homer and Langley are irrevocably alone,
prisoners in their fortress of rubbish, trapped in their warped
form of brotherly love. Wizardly Doctorow presents an ingenious,
haunting odyssey that unfolds within a labyrinth built out of the
detritus of war and excess."
-"Booklist" starred review
"A sweeping masterpiece about the infamous New York hermits, the
Collyer brothers.... Occasionally, outsiders wander through the
house, exposing it as a living museum of artifacts, Americana,
obscurity and simmering madness. Doctorow's achievement is in not
undermining the dignity of two brothers who share a lush landscape
built on imagination and incapacities. It's a feat of distillation,
vision and sympathy."
-"Publishers Weekly" starred review
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