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Loving Frank: A Novel

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Author: Nancy Horan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9

ISBN: 0345495004
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780345495006
ASIN: 0345495004

Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
bAmazon Significant Seven, August 2007/b: 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 iLoving Frank/i 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. iLoving Frank/i 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.i --Anne Bartholomew/ibr/br/

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iI have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current./ibrbrSo 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. brbrIn this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America#8217;s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney#8217;s profound influence on Wright. brbrDrawing 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#8217;s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamah#8217;s is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leading inexorably ultimately lead to this novel#8217;s stunning conclusion. brbrElegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, iLoving Frank/i is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.brbruAdvance praise for iLoving Frank:/i/ubrbr#8220;iLoving Frank/i is one of those novels that takes over your life. It#8217;s mesmerizing and fascinating#8211;filled with complex characters, deep passions, tactile descriptions of astonishing architecture, and the colorful immediacy of daily life a hundred years ago#8211;all gathered into a story that unfolds with riveting urgency.#8221;br#8211;Lauren Belfer, author of iCity of Light/ibrbr#8220;This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention. It is engrossing, provocative reading.#8221;br#8212;#8212;Scott Turowbrbr#8220;It takes great courage to write a novel about historical people, and in particular to give voice to someone as mythic as Frank Lloyd Wright. This beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright#8217;s love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate.#8221;br#8212;#8212;Jane Hamiltonbrbr#8220;I admire this novel, adore this novel, for so many reasons: The intelligence and lyricism of the prose. The attention to period detail. The epic proportions of this most fascinating love story. Mamah Cheney has been in my head and heart and soul since reading this book; I doubt she#8217;ll ever leave.#8221;br#8211;Elizabeth BergbrbrbriFrom the Hardcover edition./i

Customer Reviews: Read 95 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

Disappointing December 2, 2008
I really looked forward to reading this, love all things FLW. It was a real struggle to finish it, should have quit about 1/4 of the way through. Very little emotional character development and there's a lot to draw from.br /br /The end was particularly disturbing and although final for obvious reasons, very anticlimatic.

5 out of 5 stars

Interesting fictionalized bio December 1, 2008
I did not know the background of Frank Lloyd Wright's life so this book read like a pleasant romantic novel. I had been told that it had a startling ending. At one point, I put it down for the day and said to my friend, "I don't get it. I'm enjoying the book but I'm almost finished and life is going along so well for everyone. What could possibly be the 'startling ending'?" The next day, I turned the page and ohmygawd. What an ending. If you don't know the history of Wright, just read the book. Knowing that the ending isn't "fictionalized" makes it all the more startling.

5 out of 5 stars

Loved it! November 30, 2008
This is the best book I have read in a long time! I could not put it down. I am recommending it to all my friends.

5 out of 5 stars

Loving Frank November 29, 2008
This is a very well researched and written book. You won't remain neutral about these characters. Upon ending the book, you will want more--more about Frank Lloyd Wright's ensuing decades.

1 out of 5 stars

Not Loving "Loving Frank" November 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

How is it possible to bore a reader to death with a story of celebrity, artistic acheivement ,passionate love, adultery, and murder? Just ask Nancy Horan, the author of "Loving Frank", the story of the scandalous, and ultimately tragic, love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mameh Cheney. br /Let's give Horan her due.....she is consistent. She never misses an opportunity to gloss over a conflict or miss a dramatic moment. In one sentence she decides to leave her husband and small children; in half a page we have the account of murder and mayhem that left seven innocents slaughtered.br /The book reads more like a student research paper than a book of fiction.br /

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