The Women: A Novel
by T.C. Boyle
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Author: T.C. BoyleEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-12-29
ISBN: 0143116479
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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- ISBN13: 9780143116479
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Women: A Novel
Book Review: Another Bulls-Eye from TC Boyle
Summary: 5 Stars
Much has been said - good & bad - about Boyle's choice to formulate this story from the most recent to the long-ago beginning. I admit to being a bit confused at first, but as I caught the fictional Japanese apprentice, Tadashi's, narrative rhythm and became more familiar with the characters, I felt the backwards chronology was without a doubt the best means of portraying Frank Lloyd Wright and his Women.
When we initially meet FLW, he is a far from sympathetic subject...embittered, defiant, barely hanging on financially. His come-on to the lovely young Montenegrin dancer, Olgivanna (his final wife), seems the quintessential lecherous old man. However, as we progress through the pages (and I for one turned those pages faster and faster as the story took hold of my imagination) it becomes evident that this is a pattern of life for FLW, and the women he chooses all share certain traits...most obviously an obsession with the man himself.
I enjoyed the narration of Tadashi, his personal asides and personal tragedies actually served to illustrate his attraction to the philosophy of Wright and Taliesin, further explaining why countless young, talented professionals chose to willingly enslave themselves to a congenial tyrant, enduring the shunning of local townspeople and the constant tumult, scandals and tragedies which rocked Taliesin.
I wasn't particularly interested in Wright's life when I picked this book up, I was reading it mainly because it was Boyle. But as with any great writer, Boyle forces you to care about the characters he creates...or in Wright's and the Women's case, those he brings back to roaring life. I highly recommend getting lost in the back roads and hills of Spring Green and re-discovering Taliesin and its inhabitants for yourself!
Summary of The Women: A Novel
From "America's most imaginative contemporary novelist" (Newsweek), a novel of Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life.Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle's incomparable account of Wright's life is told through the experiences of the four women who loved him. There's the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff, the passionate Southern belle Maude Miriam Noel, the tragic Mamah Cheney, and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin. Blazing with his trademark wit and inventiveness, Boyle deftly captures these very different women and the creative life in all its complexity.
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