The women : a novel / T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, T. Coraghessan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959--Relations with women--Fiction.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Architects--Fiction.

Architects.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Physical Description:

451 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, c2009.

Summary:

Recounts the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.

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. Wright’s triumphs and defeats were always tied to the women he loved: Olgivanna Milanoff, an imperious Montenegrin beauty who was a student of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff and was known by Wright’s apprentices as “the Dragon Lady”; Maude Miriam Noel, a passionate Southern belle with a mean temper and a fondness for morphine; the spirited Mamah Borthwick Cheney, tragically murdered at Wright’s Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin, with whom he had six children. T.C. Boyle deftly captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a sexy, gripping drama about marriage, the bargains men and women make, and the privileges and pitfalls of genius and fame.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780670020416

OCLC:

233548516