General Information
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 Title:                  Homer & Langley
 Author:                 E.L. Doctorow
 Read By:                Arthur Morey
 Copyright:              2009
 Audiobook Copyright:    2009
 Genre:                  Literature
 Publisher:              Random House Inc.
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Source:                 Digital Download (9/2009)
 Condition:              Very Good

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 Total Duration:         7:07:30
 Total MP3 Size:         195.76
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Book Description
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From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, 
and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most 
substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer 
& Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable 
work.

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.

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.

