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From "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate" to "The Book of Daniel," Doctorow's novels comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. With "Homer & Langley," the master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
The master of historical fiction ("Vanity Fair") takes listeners from the early part of the 20th century through to the 1980s as seen through the warped lens of the infamous Collyer brothers, whose strange and intriguing story encapsulates much of the era's turmoil, accomplishment, and great change. ... from the American compact disc edition
The master of historical fiction ("Vanity Fair") spans the early part of the 20th century through the 1980s as seen through the warped lens of the infamous Collyer brothers, whose strange and intriguing story encapsulates much of the era's turmoil, accomplishment, and great change. ... from the American paperback edition
* A new masterpiece from E. L. Doctorow - the story of two eccentric New York brothers adapting to life in a century of change, it is humane, wise, funny and moving ... from the British paperback edition
The story of the Collyer brothers has become a legend for almost all New Yorkers. In the late 1940s, the police found the bodies of two brothers in their mansion on Fifth Avenue, buried under piles of things that had been collecting all their lives. Sons of good families, blindness of one of them had led to the other spent the rest of his life to look after him and slowly, the two had made their home their fortress. E.L. Doctorow looks at everything that happens around the Collyers, whatever they are reluctant to live, but that gets into their home with overwhelming force: immigrants, prostitutes, jazz musicians, women of high society, government agents, gangsters, hippies ... Homer and Langley will witness exception, though reluctant, changes in the U.S.. ... from the American paperback edition
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  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell
Set in Japan in the early 19th-century, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is part historical fiction, part mystery/thriller, and part swashbuckler. That the author, David Mitchell, can pull all this together is a tribute to his... [ Read full review ] |
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