Third Place Book Club -Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow

Based on the true story of the Collyer brothers, whose hoarding generated their descent into despair, this tale spans eight decades in the lives of two eccentric brothers living in a once-elegant Harlem mansion, and their eventual death buried in trash and treasure.  Homer, the blind younger brother, relates their story as paranoia overwhelms Langley, who loves his brother but has lost his grip on common sense.  Heart-ripping sentiment surfaces in the reader for these two very strange but charming men who have the means to live in style but decline into the quagmire of their home, overcome by their possessions and unable to remember lives with function and purpose.

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Homer & Langley (Paperback)

By E.L. Doctorow

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780812975635
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 8/2010

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