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Article: The brides of Frank T.C. Boyle focuses on the females in the scandal- plagued life of Frank Lloyd Wright
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2009
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BOOK REVIEW
THE WOMEN
By T.C. Boyle
Penguin, 451 pp., $27.95
All right, I'm going to say it. I wouldn't live in a house
designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for all the tea in China. I'm sorry,
but not a single Wright dwelling looks even remotely comfortable to
me.
Of course, Wright himself was a notoriously uncomfortable person
to be around, particularly if you had the misfortune to be married
to him. Nothing in "The Women," T.C. Boyle's wonderfully
entertaining new novel of the ever-so-tumultuous life and times of
America's foremost architectural genius, suggests otherwise. In
fact, I can't recall when I've encountered an individual, real or
fictional, any more self-centered, manipulative, ...