Books by E.L. Doctorow
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review 1: Too convoluted for me, I kept getting confused about where we were and who was talking. Andrew's life is pretty sad, and I can understand him becoming convinced that it was all his fault, but I think that was just magical thinking to try to understand the tragedies that life thr...
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review 1: This book is a highly fictionalized account of the life of the Collyer Brothers, some of the world's most renowned hoarders, who died tragically in 1947. The first three quarters (or more) of the book are very enjoyable to read. In the book, the Collyer brothers do well until t...
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review 1: I found this a wryly amusing, but not terrifically gripping, novel which traces the long slow downfall of upper-class and increasingly eccentric New York brothers, Langley and Homer Collyer. War-haunted Langley and progressively-blind Homer – who appear to be golden children, bor...
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review 1: Not only did I absolutely adore this book, I had the profound privilege of meeting Mr. Doctorow at the 2014 National Book Festival gala. So I was able to tell him just how much I learned about our senses and how they expand our experience from how he described Homer's ways of de...