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  Ghosty Men

  The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders

  by Franz Lidz

  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. 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... (more)
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  Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

  by Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee

  What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that’s ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealthy twin bachelors who filled up matching luxury apartments with countless pieces of fine art, not even leaving themselves room to... (more)
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  Homer & Langley

  by E. L. Doctorow

  From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March , the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers–the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps... (more)
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  Unstrung Heroes

  by Franz Lidz

  A story about a young boy growing up in 1930s New York with his four eccentric uncles. The book ties in with a film directed by Diane Keaton and starring Andie MacDowell.