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NAMED AMONG THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY THE BAY AREA CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND Langley Collyer and BOOKLISTHomer are seriously user-friendly and brothers—the one impaired, another broken into chaos, or maybe success, by mustard gas in the Truly Amazing War. They live as recluses within their once great Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the town roads for items they believe they may use, hoarding the daily papers as study for Langley’s suggested dateless paper whose reportage is likely to be as prediction. The legendary events of the millennium play out in the lives of both brothers—wars, political actions, technical advances—and despite the fact that they need only to close out the planet, background appears to go through their messy home in the individuals of immigrants, hookers, culture ladies, government providers, gangsters, punk artists.