Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
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Author: Nancy HoranReader: Joyce Bean
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-08-07
ISBN: N/A
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
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Book Review: Loving Frank
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a good book, that beuatifully intertwined fiction and non-fiction. It is about a love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and a married woman, Mamah Borthwick Cheney.
At times, it was a bit slow, but over all the book moved along nicely. Mamah is a woman that was well beyond her time. I have a feeling that we all would know her name had she not fallen to tragedy. I would like to know more about her. And Mr. Wright, I believe, has a reputation for being egotistical, yet brilliant. This book shows a different side of him, although we still get a good taste of the FLW that we have all heard about.
What I found most interesting about this book was the fiction and non-fiction that were intertwined together. I found myself researching his homes and the people in the book. I became even more interested in the book once I realized that many parts are true (the end, for example). Being from Illinois, I am familiar with FLW and his work, but enjoyed hearing about how some of his designs were created and came to fruition. I will be sure to make a trip to the Dana-Thomas House in my hometown, Springfield very soon.
Summary of Loving Frank
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want toswim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.
In this groundbreaking historical novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America?s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Mamah?s profound influence on Wright.
Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan?s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world, and her unforgettable journey, marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leads inexorably to this novel?s stunning conclusion.
Amazon Significant Seven, August 2007: It's a rare treasure to find a historically imagined novel that is at once fully versed in the facts and unafraid of weaving those truths into a story that dares to explore the unanswered questions. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is--as many early reviews of Loving Frank have noted--little-known and often dismissed as scandal. In Nancy Horan's skillful hands, however, what you get is two fully realized people, entirely, irrepressibly, in love. Together, Frank and Mamah are a wholly modern portrait, and while you can easily imagine them in the here and now, it's their presence in the world of early 20th century America that shades how authentic and, ultimately, tragic their story is. Mamah's bright, earnest spirit is particularly tender in the context of her time and place, which afforded her little opportunity to realize the intellectual life for which she yearned. Loving Frank is a remarkable literary achievement, tenderly acute and even-handed in even the most heartbreaking moments, and an auspicious debut from a writer to watch. --Anne Bartholomew
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