Ghosty men : the strange but true story of the Collyer brothers, New York's greatest hoarders : an urban historical / by Franz Lidz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lidz, Franz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collyer, Homer Lusk, 1881-1947.

Collyer, Homer Lusk.

Collyer, Langley, 1885-1947.

Collyer, Langley.

Eccentrics and eccentricities--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Eccentrics and eccentricities.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

161 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2003.

Summary:

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 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 was missing at the time, rocked the city; the story was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters, Ghosty Men is a perfect fit for Bloomsbury's Urban Historical series.

ISBN:

158234311X

OCLC:

52814144