Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into
bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth
Avenue, their future 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, and when both of their parents die, they seem
perilously ill-equipped to deal with the new era. As romantic Homer
and eccentric Langley construct a life on the fringes of society,
they hold fast to their principle of self-reliance. But they are
mocked and spied on, and despite wanting nothing more than to shut
out the world, the epic events of the century flow through their
housebound lives as they struggle to survive and create meaning for
themselves.
關於作者：
E.L. Doctorow is one of America''s most accomplished and
acclaimed living writers. Winner of among others the National
Book Award, he is the author of ten novels that have explored the
drama of American life from the late 19th century to the
21st.
E. L. Doctorow''s novels include The March, City of God, The
Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime,
Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World''s Fair, and Billy Bathgate.
His work has been published in thirty-two languages. Among his
honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics
Circle awards, two PENFaulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation
for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National
Humanities Medal. E. L. Doctorow lives in New York.
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