'HOMER & LANGLEY" E.L. Doctorow

I highly recommend this book.  Doctorow has a wonderful style that describes his characters so completely I feel like I know them. There is a combination of humor and tragedy in the lives of these two brothers.  In the forefront Homer and Langley go about their daily business while in the background ominous signs slowly become evident. I experienced humor, sadness, compassion and a bit of frustration as the characters became more bizarre, yet more dear. I resigned myself that no bright, happy ending would occur,  but I wished for it anyway.  This is the second of Doctorow's books that I've read (World's Fair) and both are very very good.  He has written some others that have been turned into movies.  I plan to read more.