Title: Homer and Langley
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.
Subjects: Brothers, Fiction, Social conditions, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Brothers, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, biographical
Places: New York (N.Y.), New York (State), New York
Time periods: 20th century