Pat D. (pat0814) reviewed on + 379 more book reviews
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I am a long-time Doctorow fan, but this novel with its intriguing premise based on the real life of the Collyer brothers didn't capture me as Doctorow's other novels have. I'm still not quite sure why; perhaps because it encompassed too much of the American experience during the mid twentieth century and then jettisoned on to the next event. It is, of course, extremely well written, but somehow - for me - Homer and Langley as people got lost somewhere along the way. I expected to be grief-stricken at the end of their sad saga, but it simply didn't happen.
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