Homer & Langley

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS
POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST
E. L. DOCTOROW
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2009
"Beautiful and haunting one of literature's most unlikely picaresques, a road novel
in which the rogue heroes can't seem to leave home." —The Boston Globe
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If omer an(l 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 cen-
tury play out in the lives of the two brothers-wars, political movements, tech-
nological advances-and even though they want nothing more than to... Tovább

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS
POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST
E. L. DOCTOROW
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2009
"Beautiful and haunting one of literature's most unlikely picaresques, a road novel
in which the rogue heroes can't seem to leave home." —The Boston Globe
Ckr>
If omer an(l 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 cen-
tury play out in the lives of the two brothers-wars, political movements, tech-
nological 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.
"A stately, beautiful performance with great resonance What makes this novel so
striking is that it joins both blindness and insight, the sensual world and the world of the
mind, totell a story aboutthe unfolding of modern American life thatwe have never heard
in exactly this (austere and lovely) way before." San Francisco Chronicle
"Wondrous inspired darkly visionary and surprisingly funny."
—The New York Review of Books Vissza