Homer and Langley
By: by E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408702154
Subjects: Brothers; Fiction; Social conditions; 18.06 Anglo-American literature
Description: Langley & Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort. Their home is a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue & their future looks rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the war with his lungs seared by gas, & the death of their parents leaves the brothers orphaned.