Publisher, Blackstone Audio (February 2009)

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“An altogether manic, occasionally baffling and yet strangely riveting novel…Call it a thinking man's soap opera…It's the writing that pulls you through, and it's the writing that will reward you in the last scene of this…(sometimes deliciously) overwrought novel. Boyle is a marvel at descriptive prose.” —Washington Post Book World

“The Women…is Boyle at his best. It is a mesmerizing story of women who invest everything, at great risk, in that mysterious ‘bank of feeling’ named Frank Lloyd Wright.” —New York Times Book Review

“Boyle’s latest novel…is full of vivid descriptions and turns of phrase that pop with a preternatural precision.” —New Yorker

“It's a lush, dense, and hyper-literate book—in other words, vintage Boyle.”—Publishers Weekly “Grover Gardner, a Publishers Weekly Narrator of the Year (2005), skillfully voices Boyle’s lauded fictional account of Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through the experiences of four women who loved him.” —Library Journal audio review

“Rising and falling in steady rhythm, soothing even when the story unsettles and surprises, Grover Gardner's voice is a fine instrument. He delivers a stellar rendition of Boyle's reimagining of Frank Lloyd Wright's tortured relationships with his wives and lovers…Gardner, a regular prize-winner who's done more than 650 audiobooks, is familiar to audio listeners, but he strikes new notes, hurdling over difficult names and nimbly skipping from character to character. Readers will be entirely immersed in the hothouse world of the architect and his women.” —Publishers Weekly audio review

“Narrator Grover Gardner has a deep nasal tone that, remarkably, sounds like an old radio broadcaster's voice. This fits the mood of the book perfectly since the story takes place in the 1930s. Gardner is adept at employing pauses and emphasis to accentuate Boyle's prodigious vocabulary.” —AudioFile

“The Women [is] nimbly narrated by Grover Gardner…Boyle’s exuberance, a good match for Wrights, and his skillful blending of history and invention animate this extraordinary fictional portrait of Wright and his women.” —BookPage audio review

“Gardner displays his award-winning narrating chops with clear enunciation of the somewhat florid prose, precise renderings of various accents, and the ability to change pitch for the women characters. His portrayal of ex-wife Maude Miriam Noel is particularly noteworthy, as he expresses a startling range of complex emotions, from murderous rage to demure haughtiness. Gardner gives a bravura performance in this fascinating fictional look at a man who flouted convention and the women who paid dearly for their involvement with him.” —Booklist audio review

One of Library Journal’s Best Audiobooks of 2009

The life of Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, blazes with T. C. Boyle's trademark wit and invention.

Wright’s life was one long, howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral, or romantic. Despite the overblown scandals surrounding his amours and the financial disarray that dogged him, 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. Through the voices of these very different women, T.C. Boyle creates a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur.

About the Author: T. C. BOYLE is the author of twenty-two books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague, Drop City, The Inner Circle, Tooth and Claw, The Human Fly, Talk Talk, The Women, Wild Child, and When the Killing's Done. He received a PhD in nineteenth-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, where he is Distinguished Professor of English. His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Farsi, Croatian, Turkish, Albanian, Vietnamese, Serbian, and Slovene. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta, and McSweeney’s, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Prize for best novel of the year; the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story; and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.