L. Doctorow's new novel, "Homer and Langely, " offers fictional insight into the reclusive Collyer brothers, found dead in their Fifth Avenue mansion in 1947 amid 130 tons of trash, including 14 pianos, 25, 000 books, decades worth of newspapers and the chassis of a Model T Ford.

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