Review: Doctorow novel is based on the true story of the scions of a well-to-do N.Y. family who became eccentric ... (Denver Post)

The last name of the title characters of E.L. Doctorow's new novel, 'Homer & Langley,' is Collyer, and the book's brothers do, in fact, turn out to be versions of those infamous New York pack rats whose overstuffed Harlem brownstone made their name synonymous with obsessive-compulsive collecting.