Loving Frank: the scandalous love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mameh Cheney - Softcover

Horan, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340919442 ISBN 13: 9780340919446

Publisher: Two Roads, 2008

Synopsis

In the early 1900s polite Chicago society was rocked by terrible scandals as renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, ran off with Mamah Cheney, a client's wife. Abandoning their families and reputations, the lovers fled to Europe and exile. Mamah's actions branded her as an unnatural mother and society relished her prosecution. For the rest of her life Mamah paid an extraordinary price for moving outside society's rules, in a time that was unforgiving of a woman's quest for fulfillment and personal happiness. Headstrong and honest, her love for Frank was unfaltering. This portrait of her life as his muse and soulmate is a moving, passionate and timeless love story.

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Review:

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

About the Author:

Nancy Horan, a former journalist and longtime resident of Oak Park, Illinois, now lives and writes on an island in Puget Sound.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Two Roads
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0340919442
• ISBN 13: 9780340919446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432