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Homer and Langley

By: E.L. Doctorow
Narrated by: William Hope
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Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers – 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. Yet 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, and government agents.©2009 E.L. Doctorow (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Biography
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When I began listening to this novel, I wasnt too taken by the content or narrator. I felt the narrative was too involved and too tight. To keep it short and sweet though, as I listened on, I began to really like these two characters and the personalities they brought to me as we moved on in time. The people coming into their lives and the happiness and sorrow of lifes' movement. I felt sad when they left us and the book came to its end. Its very much a saga of their lives to near-present day with all the life changes we all have tio make as we grow older. Our future (hopefully), will see us less troubled from ourselves as well as others. I gave it four stars out of five simply because of the length of time it took for me to connect. Otherwise it was a really good book.

Felt like homely distant uncles.

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as heart felt as Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life it's told through the eyes of one of the main two characters. You are deeply moved by its tragic content. I relish all stories of human imprisonment of the mind. I think this book so could be adapted into a one man stage play. I love it.

a story so well told

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