Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright died 50 years ago this spring, but his pioneering buildings are still being discussed. And so is his sex life. As for Wright's reality was not interesting kroner as he was CATNIP for novelists. T.C. Boyle's The Women (Viking, 464 p.., $ 27.95), today is a novel based on Wright's stormy love life with four women - his two wives, a Southern Belle named Maud Miriam Noel, who had a passion for morphine and His most famous mistress, Mamah Cheney, who was murdered at Wright's Wisconsin estate, Taliesin.
Boyle's novel comes on heels of the surprise best seller Loving Frank, Nancy Horan's 2007 debut novel, which also deals with the eccentric architect fees womanizing. Approximately 680,000 copies in print. Boyle has written the historical novels about the larger than life men: flakes flakes cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in the way of Wellsville and sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey in the inner circle. "They come from the same mold. Kvar is egomanic and narcissist. They have no empathy for anyone other than his acolytes," said Boyle, 60, who lives in a Wright-designed home in Montecito, California Boyle says he is not so much interested in " moral aspect "of Wright's life." I just wanted to know what it would be to be one of his (female) fans.
Horan was intrigued by Cheney and told the story through her eyes. "I was surprised how the story had in it elements of a Greek tragedy, not least, was Wright's hubris," says Horan, 60 "At one point, but it was natural Mamah Cheney that puzzled and challenged me. "Karen Corvello, head buyer for RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, Conn. Says Horan's Loving Frank was" very successful, very popular with book clubs. She is not sure Boyle book is as big a seller. "He is a fantastic writer, but quirky and appealing to a different audience," Corvello says. "But it will still be interested, because it is such a crazy story, so it to do good. "
The two novels with hundreds of non-fiction books about Wright, including critically acclaimed biographies of such luminaries as the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, and Brendan Gill in The New Yorker. Corvello says "mini-trend" of two novels about Wright's sex life is not so unusual, and adds that such "crazy things" happen in the book world all the time. "There are two books now about the first woman to swim the English Channel. Go figure."
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