num_pages: 161
description: A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the neighborhood had degentrified, and their house was a fortress of in an attempt to preserve the past, Homer and Langley held on to everything they touched.The scandal of Homer's discovery, the story of his life, and the search for Langley, who was missing at the time, rocked the city; the story was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters, Ghosty Men is a perfect fit for Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series.Praise for Unstrung Heroes :"Unusual and affecting...[a] melancholy, funny book, a loony tune played with touching disharmony..."- New York Times
language: English
title: Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers and My Uncle Arthur, New York's Greatest Hoarders
titlecomplete: Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers and My Uncle Arthur, New York's Greatest Hoarders (An Urban Historical)
genres: Family, Biography, History, Mental Illness, Mental Health, New York, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Cultural
ratings_count: 952
publisher: Bloomsbury USA