The Women: A Novel (edit title)

Ellen M edited the quotations of The Women: A Novel Sunday, September 13 2009.

• Added a quotation: “And this was the nightmare: leaping stop the shingles from one emergency to the next, the soles of his shoes seared with the fury of the heat, the water buckets coming up and down the ladder -- pitiful, nothing at all, he might as well have been flinging teardrops into a volcano -- and within minutes the roof over the bedroom collapsed with a roar onto the doomed bed and the condemned floor.”

Ellen M edited the first sentence of The Women: A Novel Sunday, September 13 2009.

• I didn't knowmuchknow much about automobiles at the time -- still don't, for that matter -- but it was an automobile that took me to Taliesin in the fall of 1932, through a country alternately fortified with trees and rolled out like a carpet to the back wall of its barns, hayricks and farmhouses, through towns with names like Black Earth, Mazomanie and Coon Rock, where no one in living memory had ever seen a Japanese face.

Ellen M edited the first sentence of The Women: A Novel Sunday, September 13 2009.

• I didn't knowmuch about automobiles at the time -- still don't, for that matter -- but it was an automobile that took me to Taliesin in the fall of 1932, through a country alternately fortified with trees and rolled out like a carpet to the back wall of its barns, hayricks and farmhouses, through towns with names like Black Earth, Mazomanie and Coon Rock, where no one in living memory had ever seen a Japanese face.

Shelfari edited the description of The Women: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his life 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Women: A Novel Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : T. Coraghessan Boyle:

Peiyu W edited the quotations of The Women: A Novel Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a quotation: “No matter, because there was one surety in all of this, one thing she knew without stint: he was hers”
• Added a quotation: “Outside, beyond the gray frame of the window, the weather was dreary, funereal clouds strung from the rooftops like laundry hung out to dry, and so cold even the dirty gray ratlike pigeons were huddled against it, dark motionless lines of frozen feathers and arrested beaks blighting the eaves as far as she could see down both sides of the block”
• Added a quotation: “And he, fully aroused, his face gone rubicund and his ears glistening like Christmas ornaments in the quavering light, breathed his answer against the soft heat of her lips”

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Women: A Novel Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a contributor: T. Coraghessan Boyle: (Primary Author)