Women - Softcover

Boyle, Tom Coraghessan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143117033 ISBN 13: 9780143117032

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: Jan. 2010 Pages: 608 Publisher: Penguin In this book the author turns HIS fictional sights on Frank Lloyd Wright Boyle's account of Wright's Life. AS told through the experiences of the four women who loved him. Blazes with his trademark - wit and invention. Wright's life was one long howling struggle against the bonds of convention. whether aesthetic. social. moral. or romantic. He never did what was expected and despite the overblown scandals surrounding his amours and very public divorces and the financial disarray that dogged him throughout his career. he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions. Wright's triumphs and defeats were always tied to the women he loved - the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney. tragically killed; and his you...

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Review:

TC Boyle has long validated his credentials as one of the most individual writers at work today, with a style and a vision quite unlike that of any of his contemporaries. The Women, his latest book, will add even more lustre to his reputation. It’s a novel that brings to mind the pressure-cooker narratives of William Faulkner, though its subject could not be more different: the life and loves of the most famous of the great American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright.

The imposing estate of Taliesen is a noted feature of rural Wisconsin, and it’s a place where the passions – of all kinds – run high. Reporters haunt the property, hungry for more revelations guaranteed to sell newspapers – because Taliesen is the home of the celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright. As well as being the most famous architect of his country in the twentieth century, his celebrity was (and is) world-wide. But his messy private life (as reproduced in Boyle’s novel) is a considerable source of interest and scandal along with his massive artistic achievements. His first wife, Kitty, lives in a world of her own, persuading herself that his other amours are transitory. Then there is his mistress, the passionate and strong-willed Mamah. And there is his deranged second wife, Miriam. And if this weren’t enough of a powder keg, also stirred into the heady brew is Oglivanna, a Serbian immigrant, who shares most closely the turbulence and terror of the architect’s jumbled private life, with Miriam a kind of avenging fury, enlisting a host of pretty officials to get her way. It’s a remarkable scenario (narrated by one of the architect’s apprentices), and Boyle gives it incandescent life, with the character of Frank Lloyd Wright brilliantly conjured at the heart of the unlikely – but compelling – narrative. --Barry Forshaw

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'The prose is sparkling, the narrative gripping, and the material to die for'

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0143117033
• ISBN 13: 9780143117032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 596