A self-described “cog in machine for a certain period, one of many cogs, that and nothing more,” Sato takes you on a truth-blurring tour of Wright, his work, and his women. The book is narrated by the fictional Tadashi Sato, a Japanese architect who was mentored by “Wrieto-San” for a number of years. The more compelling the soap opera with which Wright surrounded himself, the better he could star in it, and in the hands of Boyle, this soap opera soars to dramatic heights. As Boyle writes of his subject, “He needed complication”-and, luckily for the reader-such a life makes for wonderful fiction fodder. The result is a breathing, swirling, sometimes ridiculously wide-ranging mosaic of the man and myth who dominated the society pages and gossip columns of newspapers as much as he did the world of architecture throughout the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. With The Women, Boyle has added another chapter to his growing list of historically inspired, quasi-biographical novels about who he calls the “great megalomaniacs of the 20th century who made us what we are today.” Like Stanley McCormick in Riven Rock, Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, and John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville, Wright’s life, loves, and work get the Boyle treatment in the author’s 20th book. As prolific as he is ambitious, Boyle has taken just such a route of introduction in his newest novel The Women, a fact-and-fiction mashup based on the brilliant, bizarre, and often brazen life of “America’s greatest architect of all time,” Frank Lloyd Wright.īoyle has spent the past 16 years living in and restoring Wright’s first California residence, the George C. What better way to get to know a man than through the lens of his various love affairs, and with his decidedly non-English speaking Japanese minion as your tour guide?Ĭonfused? Welcome to the creativity-charged alternate universe of Montecito-based wordsmith T.C.
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