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In the comic book ‘The Women’, acclaimed novelist T. C. Boyle turns his attention to the life and loves of celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright, enlightening human dramas and illuminating both history and American culture with imaginative energy.
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. Boyle’s account of Wright’s life, as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, blazes with his trademark wit and invention.
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 despite the overblown scandals surrounding his amours and very public divorces and the financial disarray that dogged him throughout his career, 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: 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. In The Women, T.C. 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. Source: BarnesAndNoble.com
Die hard Frank Lloyd Wright fans can purchase ‘The Women’ (Hardcover) from amazon now for $16.77.
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Architectural Terms
Sense of Entry
The front door is big and far away.
Human Scale
Less than 400 feet tall.
Skewed Grid
The design looked too boring with a regular grid.
Pedestrian-Oriented
Doesn’t have enough parking.
Contextual
Is surrounded by a lot of other buildings the architect couldn’t tear down.
Theoretical
Nobody in their right mind would ever consider building the crazy thing.
Signature Building
You can’t afford it.
Less Is More
The designer ran out of ideas. Cheap Skate.
Classically Proportioned
Traced out of a book of Greek architecture.
Postmodern
Traced out of a book of Roman architecture.
International Style
No country will take responsibility for it.
Deconstructivist
The backhoe ran into it during construction—and they liked it.
Seismically Designed High Rise
In an earthquake, the structure will not collapse, but will drop all of its glass and stone panels into the street turning pedestrians into a stew-like mush of pureed flesh.
Jury
Firing squad.
Design Review Board
Failed architecture majors.
Architecture Student
Egotistical masochist with no money.
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