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The Women (Paperback)
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As he did with Alfred Kinsey in THE INNER CIRCLE and John Harvey Kellogg in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T.C. Boyle mines the biography of a monumental figure in American history, and transmutes it into a vivid novelistic portrait. In THE WOMEN, Boyle provid......more
As he did with Alfred Kinsey in THE INNER CIRCLE and John Harvey Kellogg in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T.C. Boyle mines the biography of a monumental figure in American history, and transmutes it into a vivid novelistic portrait. In THE WOMEN, Boyle provides an alternate view of master architect Frank Lloyd Wright, seen through his turbulent relationships with four women who loved him at different times of his life--Olgivanna, a lithe beauty from Montenegro, Miriam, a vivacious, drug-addicted Southern belle, Mamah, his soul mate and true beloved, and his first wife Kitty, who remains forever faithful. The story of THE WOMEN is told by a man, Tadashi Sato, an apprentice of Wright, who relates the episodes in reverse chronological order. As Wright`s ephemeral affections and tyrannical obsessions continually frustrate his love interests, his unconventional architectural visions, particularly his magnificent estate, Taliesin, emerge as the genuine loves of his life in this grand re-imagining of an artistic icon.
- Author:
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
- ISBN:
- 9780143116479
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 451
- Publish Date:
- 12/29/2009
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group USA
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Starred ReviewThe genius of Frank Lloyd Wright was both magnetic and cruel, as evidenced by the succession of failed marriages and hot-blooded affairs depicted in this biographic reimagining that drills into Wright mythology and the dark shadows of the American dream. The narrative moves backwards in time through the accounts of four women in Wright's life: Olgivanna, the steely, grounded dancer from Montenegro; Miriam, the drug-addled narcissist from the South; Kitty, the devoted first wife; and Mamah, the beloved and murdered soul mate and intellectual companion. But the novel's centerpiece is Taliesin, Wright's Oz-like Wisconsin home. The tragedies that befall Taliesin-fires, brutality-serve as proxy for Wright's inner turmoil; his deeper stirrings surface only occasionally from behind Boyle's oft-overbearing depiction of Wright's women. The most engaging person is Tadashi Sato," the Japanese-American apprentice and narrator who emerges via his frequent footnotes as a complex reflection of """"Wrieto-san"""" and", with his inability to remain objective and his evolving view of Wright and Wright's image, becomes the book's most dynamic character. It's a lush, dense and hyperliterate book-in other words, vintage Boyle. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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