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Homer and Langley

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
1-4000-6494-5

Originally published
  
2009

Publisher
  
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Publication date
  
2009

Pages
  
208 pp

OCLC
  
290470025

Author
  
E. L. Doctorow

Country
  
United States of America

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Genres
  
Postmodernism, Historical drama

E. L. Doctorow books
  
Billy Bathgate, The March, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, The Waterworks

Homer & Langley is a novel by American author E. L. Doctorow published in September 2009. It imagines a version of the lives of the Collyer brothers of New York City, notorious for their eccentricities as well as their habit of compulsively hoarding a plethora of various bric-a-brac, newspapers, books and other items.

Although Doctorow is unambiguous in identifying his fictional characters with the historical Collyer brothers, he changes many biographical facts in creating his story. Among the most overt are his extending the lives of the brothers by roughly thirty years into the early 1980s, reversing the birth order of the brothers, and making Homer, not Langley, the talented pianist.

References

Homer & Langley Wikipedia


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