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 Langleys proposed dateless newspaper whose . Doctorows most recent novel Homer and Langley is the story of the reallife Collyer brothers who dwelt in eccentric seclusion in a crumbling Fifth Avenue mansionthe key word here being eccentric. 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. The brothers were major hoarders.
As the world turns ever more incomprehensible Homer and Langley hold fast to their principles of selfreliance courage kindness and love. When WWI hits and the Spanish flu pandemic kills Homer and Langleys parents Langley the elder goes to war with his Columbia education and his godlike immunity to such an ordinary fate as death in a war. Homer Langley is narrated by blind donnish uncrippled Homer and if Homer doesnt nod this reviewer dida few times. Homer and Langley are both damaged men Homer who gradually lost his eyesight as a teenager and Langley in a mustard gas attack in World War I. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothersthe one blind and deeply intuitive the other damaged into madness or perhaps greatness by mustard gas in the Great War. Its the Collyer brothers Homer and Langley wealthy reclusive Manhattan pack rats who lived for decades in squalor in a Fifth Avenue brownstone and died within a labyrinth of trash towers of. Homer Langley By E.L. Homer and Langley by EL Doctorow . Doctorow nailed that part of his personality. Homer the narrator of the story is blind from early. Doctorow published in September 2009. Using his patented blend of fact and fiction E. Homer and Langley . Homer H Langley age 90 is listed at 1116 Landers St Ormond Beach Fl 32174 and is affiliated with the Democratic Party.