A tale inspired by a true story finds the blind Homer Collyer closeted within a once-grand
Fifth Avenue mansion with his damaged brother and remembering a life marked by colorful
characters political events and technological achievements. By the National Book Award-winning
author of Billy Bathgate. Reprint. A best-selling novel.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 PEN Faulkner 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.
