Carol H. reviewed on 10/3/2005 + 60 more book reviews

Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department was forced to lower Homer's dead body by rope out of the house he hadn't left in nearly a decade, the neighborhood had degentrified, and the Collyers' home had become a sealed fortress of junk. Dedicated to preserving the past, the brothers had held on to everything they had ever touched...The front-page scandal of the discovery of Homer's body and the worldwide search for his brother, Langley, is brilliantly and charmingly interwoven with the heartbreaking story of the author's Uncle Arthur, who had his own tower of "stuff".

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