The Women Hardcover | Pages: 451 pages

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Title	:	The Women
Author	:	T. Coraghessan Boyle
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 451 pages
Published	:	February 10th 2009 by Viking Books (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Architecture

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Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the latest tragedy in this never-ending saga. This is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life: at once a force of nature and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path. Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, "The Women" plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a formidable American icon.

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Original Title:	The Women
ISBN:	0670020419 (ISBN13: 9780670020416)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Frank Lloyd Wright
Literary Awards:	Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2016)

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Not a review, merely some late comments....After a a week's break in reading, I'm up to the final part of The Women by T.C. Boyle. The day Mamah Borthwick meets their new butler Julian Carleton filled me with unease. My reading paced slowed as I approached that fateful day at Taliesin when Julian's rage at his wife, his situation, his life explodes. All too soon, I'm done; I sit on the sofa with tears in my eyes for the events which have unfurled; tears not for FLW's loss but for Mamah and her

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility; I chose arrogance. --Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd WrightTadashi Sato abandoned his studies and his life in Japan to come to America, more specifically Wisconsin, to study with his hero Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright had a fascination with Eastern culture, in particular their paintings, so it wasnt hard for Tadashi to get one of the coveted apprenticeships. As I read this book I thought it was truly remarkable that

Uninteresting story about a horrendous man. No beautiful sentences. Footnotes instead. Seriously, what were these footnotes good for? And what's the added value of Tadashi Sato telling this story? And why did I keep reading this book, why am I so perseverant?So not scoring a lot of points for the male writers' cause.Disclaimer: of course, only my personal opinion, not the one and only truth.

I have always really really liked T.C. Boyle. I loved "The Inner Circle," and "Riven Rock," and "The Road to Wellville." I was hoping I would like "The Women" that much. I didn't, though I did ultimately like it. Boyle is a great writer--he has a way with description, dry humor, and emotional complexity. Settling in with him is like settling in with an old and beloved friend. I have always found his writing of the emotional landscape of women very real. But this book, which is about the women in

I couldn't put it down; it was totally mesmerizing. But the events of the last part were so incredible, so horrifying and so fascinating (and horrifying!! have I mentioned horrifying?!) that it's hard to even remember the rest. It makes me wonder if it would have been possible to have written this book without the One Event totally eclipsing the rest of the novel.

Audiobook read by Grover Gardner3*** Boyle tells the story of Frank Lloyd Wright through the eyes of the women who loved him: first wife Kitty, mistress Mamah, second wife Miriam, and third wife Olgivanna. He frames the story by having the story told as a sort of biography by Tadashi Sato, one of Wrights apprentices in the 1930s. Sato has an introduction/prologue to each of the three parts of the novel, as well as interjecting footnotes throughout. The chronology moves back and forth,

I did not know anything about what this book was about other than the fact that I was attracted by the author TC Boyle. If you know the name of one architect that name is probably Frank Lloyd Wright. While there may be many other famous architects, his is the only name I know. As I began listening to this book I thought the women referred to in the title might be the relatively few women who worked as assistance to Wright during his career. That might make an interesting story since architecture