The Women A Novel [Paperback]

A “riveting” (Wall Street Journal) portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life – 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of Wright’s birth

Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg inThe Road to Wellvilleand sex researcher Alfred Kinsey inThe 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. Wonderfully entertaining . . . In his inexhaustible capacity to beguile us as a natural storyteller, T.C. Boyle is surely one of our most American novelists since Mark Twain, and one of our very best.
--The Boston Globe

Despite dozens of writers' attempts to capture Wright's story, it seems safe to say that none have rendered it with more crackling life than Mr. Boyle. --The Wall Street Journal

Boyle at his best . . . Love, not architecture, is the focus here. . . . A mesmerizing story of women who invest everything, at great risk, in that mysterious 'bank of feeling' named Frank Lloyd Wright. . . . Boyle doesn't just fiddle around with familiar autobiographical material. He inhabits the space of Wright's life and times with particular boldness.
--The New York Times Book Review 

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published sixteen novels, most recentlyThe TerranautsandThe Harder They Come, and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner awalc+