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|  |  Loving Frank: A Novel - Nancy Horan
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 Features: - ISBN13: 9780345495006
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$10.08 (33% off) Usually ships in 24 hours  (365 Reviews) | Format: Paperback
Release Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Publication Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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| | | |  Historical Fiction At Its Best Tuesday, August 24, 2010Loving Frank is truly historical fiction at its best. The story of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney is told with depth and insight by Nancy Horan. Although a fictionalized account of their life and time together, Ms. Horan makes the reader feel as if he/she is a witness to all that transpires. Much has been written about Frank Lloyd Wright, but little has been written about Mamah Borthwick Cheney, who was a bright and unconventional woman ahead of her time. Ms. Horan's depiction of their life together is credible and feels very real. Portraying Frank Lloyd Wright through the eyes of the woman he loves allows us to see the legend in a very human way. Not a shallow love story. Saturday, August 21, 2010Beautifully written. Intreaguing. Lots of story. Powerful w/o maudling emotion. Love, Divorce, children, social attitudes, survival in early 1900's. A must read for Frank Lloyd Wright fans Sunday, August 15, 2010If you've been to Oak Park/Chicago and seen some of this architect's outstanding buildings, then this book is a must. It's the story of Frank running off to Europe with the attractive wife of one of his clients, and gives a lot of incites to the man and how he thought and operated.  Less than compelling Thursday, August 12, 2010This book was boring. The writer takes us along a poetic meandering of bad choices. I found this book very hard to finish and did put is aside for a few weeks.  not crazy about it Wednesday, August 11, 2010I agree with "Overrated" of 2007. Not a page-turner. The author seems to be overlaying the early 20th century characters with our modern standards, thoughts, and ideas, which makes Mamah especially annoying. FLW comes off as an egoist, as I think is well known to be true. He was a genius architect, but no one claims he was anything other than arrogant and selfish. The prose is well written, but you'll find yourself rolling your eyes at the preachiness, repetitiveness, silliness of the thoughts and motives of the heroine (particularly in her discoveries of women's rights and free love, and in her unfathomable obsession with FLW as a lover), and at the anachronistic observations and errors (e.g., Mamah and FLW went to tour the "cathedrals" of Florence; there is only one cathedral in Florence, the seat of the bishop; those other large structures they toured are correctly called "churches"). I'd recommend "Death in a Prairie House" instead, if you are interested in the topic.  | | | | |
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