The Women: A Novel

by T. Coraghessan Boyle, T.C. Boyle

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction

464 pages, Hardcover

Published February 5, 2009

About the author

T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a
Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.

He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.

Reviews

[Rose Hammerl · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Women by T.C. Boyle demonstrates the arrogance, chauvinism, conceit, lack of empathy of Frank Lloyd Wright. I was surprised...but then why.... it was basically the lifestyle of the times. Do I recommend reading this book? Why read it? Maybe just for the horror of realizing how little has changed.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I could not finish this book. Frank Lloyd Wright certainly seemed to have been a piece of work! This book follows the women that were either married to him or kept as mistresses. They all seem so insufferable, not just the women, but Mr. Wright as well. The way Mr. Wright's "intern" were treated was unbelievable. It seemed that Mr. Wright was stretched thin with funds because he mismanaged them and over-promised so much. I just couldn't stand to read any more of the whining of everyone. The author also just kept pontificating! ugh

[Gerry Matthews · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting and tragic story. Wright was a great architect but an arrogant, self centered and selfish man. He also had terrible taste in women! Being a fictionalized account,I don't know how accurate the portrayals of the women are, but if true, these people are awful. There is not one likable person in the book besides the Japanese apprentice and he is a fictionalized character.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recognize that the reverse chronological order of time saved the climax to the end (although it was mentioned previously), still not sure I was a fan of it. I did enjoy the book however, and learned much of Frank Lloyd Wright that I was not previously aware of.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written, but I did not enjoy the characters in this book.

[Oliver · Rating 5 out of 5]

Basiert auf wahren Ereignissen und Personen - und ich musste mehrmals bei Wikipedia nachschauen, ob die Dinge wirklich so geschehen sind. Frank Lloyd Wright: ein genialer, visionärer Architekt, ein unmöglicher Partner. TCB hat aus dem Leben der Frauen an Wrights Seite eine ziemlich faszinierende Erzählung gestrickt und das so, dass die größte Katastrophe am Ende steht – die aber auch nur einer von vielen Wendepunkten in FLWs bewegtem Privatleben war.