The Women: A Novel (Library Binding)

T.C. Boyle

ISBN 10: 1433260611 ISBN 13: 9781433260612

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2009

Synopsis

Frank Lloyd 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 he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions. Told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, this imaginative account of Wright s raucous life blazes with Boyle s trademark wit and invention. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

T. C. BOYLE has written eleven novels and eight collections of stories. His work has been published in Esquire, Harper s, McSweeney s, the Atlantic, New Yorker, and Paris Review. He lives in the George C. Steart house the first of Frank Lloyd Wright s California designs which will celebrate its centennial this year.

From AudioFile:

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright earned his fame for building modern houses that redefined the correlation between form and function. This novel is a fictional version of his complicated and scandalous personal life, which included three wives and a mistress. The author is a master storyteller who takes literary license but never loses sight of his subject's humanity. Narrator Grover Gardner has a deep nasal tone that, remarkably, sounds like an old radio broadcaster's voice. This fits the mood of the book perfectly since the story takes place in the 1930s. Gardner is adept at employing pauses and emphasis to accentuate Boyle's prodigious vocabulary, and while he gives his characters inflections that set them apart, he doesn't change his pitch appreciably for female voices. R.I.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1433260611
• ISBN 13: 9781433260612
• Binding: Audio CD