NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO
CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE
KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers--the 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 for things
they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research
for Langley's proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be
as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the
lives of the two brothers--wars, political movements, technological
advances--and 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, government
agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives
are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and
create meaning for themselves.
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