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The Women

by T.C. Boyle
Viking, $27.95

The triumphs and defeats of architect Frank Lloyd Wright were always tied to the women he loved: an exotic Montenegrin beauty; an ill-tempered Southern belle with a morphine addiction; the strong-willed wife of a neighbor who later was tragically murdered; and his first wife, with whom he had six children. In his latest novel, T.C. Boyle, Distinguished Professor of English at USC College, tells the story of Wright’s life through the eyes of a young man who in 1932 sought an apprenticeship with the architect at his Wisconsin estate.