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Libro Homer and Langley. Sinopsis libro, reseña libro. 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 Libro Homer and Langley.

1 valoración en Homer and Langley

  1. Kyle

    I usually find fault with historical fiction when it veers too widely away from actual events but this book offers an empathic and inventive «what if» in the story of the Collyer brothers. Since we have so little personal data, E. L. Doctorow gives us an imaginative and very warm human take on two individuals who were labeled no more than «hoarders» or «crazy. I loved this book. Read it twice in one weekend. A story that could potentially bring me down instead made me feel a connection as a human being.

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