false 3381581 9 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. 3421240 10 2 2009 The Women total:729|5:96|4:291|3:228|2:109|1:29| 729 2485 1784 324 3 2 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:32:23 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:33:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 08:34:47 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 20:20:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:26:06 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 22:48:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Apr 15 12:43:59 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:43:59 -0700 2009 T. C. Boyle has written many biographical novels, but critics weren't sure that this effort fully succeeds. All agreed that Boyle is a graceful stylist whose writing, noted the Washington Post, "will reward you in the last scene of this altogether predictable and (sometimes deliciously) overwro...

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If T.C. Boyle had called his latest novel, The Women, nimbly narrated by Grover Gardner, The Man, no one would have balked. The central character, the flame that draws the loving female moths, is Frank Lloyd Wright, America's greatest architect or, as he wo...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 20:37:30 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 20:41:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 10:19:38 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 11:59:06 -0700 2009
This book starts with a section about his 3rd wife Olgivanna, the second section tells the story of his 2...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 11:23:35 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 11:35:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 07:15:22 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 07:15:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 10:05:39 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 09:26:23 -0700 2009 the only thing I didn't like about it was that the story is told in reverse chronological order, which didn't make sense to me--started with FLW's LAST wife and goes back and time. The narrator of the story was also...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 27 09:01:19 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:15:38 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 09:01:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 21:48:33 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 22:18:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 30 18:22:52 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 15:27:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 22:25:10 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 22:31:26 -0700 2009
This is a fictionalized-but-based-on-reality account of the major romantic relationships in Frank Lloyd Wright's life.

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