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| Title | : | Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers and My Uncle Arthur, New York's Greatest Hoarders (An Urban Historical) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158234311X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 161 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters.. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the neighborhood had degentrified, and their house was a fortress of junk: in an attempt to preserve the past, Homer and Langley held on to everything they touched.The scandal of Homer's discovery, the story of his life, and the search for Langley, who
In this slim volume, part of Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series, Lidz, a memoirist (Unstrung Heroes) and senior writer at Sports Illustrated, examines the Collyer brothers' intriguing, baffling lives. . The compulsive hermits came from a respected, well-to-do family and were educated at Columbia, Homer as a lawyer and Langley, who was a talented pianist, as an engineer. From Publishers Weekly When 65-year-old Homer Collyer, blind and crippled by rheumatism, was found dead in his dilapidated, junk-filled Harlem brownstone in March 1947, the discovery made all of New York's newspapers, as did the subsequent hunt for his younger brother, Langley, whose body was finally located under piles of debris. "Sort of a freedom, it was. They became part of New York lore in August 1938, when the World-Telegram wrote about the pair and their once-fashionable house on Fifth Aven
Prbasha said I was hoping for more.. So, so. Don't waste your time.. HARLEM'S HOARDING HERMITS lawyeraau Ever since I read "My Brother's Keeper", a wonderful book by Marcia Davenport, which was a novel loosely based upon of the lives of the notorious Collyer brothers, I have been interested in reading more about these strange men who hoarded junk in their Harlem brownstone home. Having grown up the well-educated children of privilege, it is odd that Home. "A Strange, Moving, Wonderfully-Told Tale" according to W. C HALL. I've been fascinated by the story of the Collyer brothers for years, but had only found the most superficial accounts of their lives. Even as a youth, I was a budding hoarder (magazines, newspapers, Congressional Records, old phone books), and my mother told me about the Collyers and the 100-plus tons of junk that was found inside their Harlem brownst
Franz Lidz is a Sports Illustrated senior writer, a New York Times film essayist, and the author of Unstrung Heroes: My Improbable Life with Four Impossible Uncles, which was made into a 1995 Disney feature film.
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