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The Women by T.C. Boyle A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his life. T.C. Boyle turns his fictional sights on a colorful and outlandish character: 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.   In The Women, T.C. Boyle's protean voice captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.

T.C. Boyle

About the Author T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, The Women (2009), Talk Talk (2006), The Human Fly (2005) and Tooth and Claw (2005). He received his Ph.D. in 19th Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977 and has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978. His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages, and his stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, and McSweeney's.