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The
2011 Award |
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The Women by T.C. Boyle
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Nominated by:
Publisher of Nominated Edition: Bloomsbury Publishing, UK. Viking Penguin, USA
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ABOUT
THE BOOK |
A dark, riveting story of the life of one of America's most famous architects, Frank Lloyd Wright Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the latest tragedy in this never-ending saga. This is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life: at once a force of nature and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path. (From Publisher). |
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR |
T.C. Boyle is the bestselling author of fourteen books of fiction which have been published to worldwide acclaim in many languages. His novel Drop City, published in paperback by Bloomsbury in March 2004, was shortlisted for the National Book Award. He has won numerous awards and honours including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1988 for World's End. He received a PhD degree in 19th Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his BA in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978. His fiction regularly appears in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus and Granta. T.C. Boyle lives in Santa Barbara, California. |
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LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS |
Conflict between art colony and small town life with its prejudices against anything extravagant. Very interesting setting in art history of the 20th century. The Women tells the fascinating story of Frank Lloyd Wright's wives and mistresses, why they made the choices they did, the consequences of those choices. The narrator a Japanese architect who worked for Wright, gives a unique perspective to the women's stories. |
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