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“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.”—Scott Turow “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’s love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate.”—Jane Hamilton “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’ ll ever leave.”—Elizabeth Berg “Loving Frank is one of those novels that takes over your life. It’s mesmerizing and fascinating–filled with complex characters, deep passions, tactile descriptions of astonishing architecture, and the colorful immediacy of daily life a hundred years ago–all gathered into a story that unfolds with riveting urgency.”—Lauren Belfer
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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.
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Product details
Paperback: 377 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (April 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345495004
ISBN-13: 978-0345495006
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
1,393 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#21,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I found this story thoroughly fascinating. It is not a book about architecture but about a very famous married architect that had a torrid affair with a married, fairly wealthy, very educated woman that made headlines in its day 1911-1914 in Chicago. If this happened now, it would be plastered all over the tabloids, internet and TV! It is a story of lust, love, abandonment, travel and living in Europe. It is about the suffragette movement, the European contemporary art movement (Bauhaus). But is a story of 2 very selfish people, self-absorbed with little regard for the families they are leaving behind in their quest for Frank L Wright's success and her "finding herself", could she live with him? like a little trial run. She wouldn't want to leave her comfortable family with 2 young children officially if this romance didn't work out. As exciting as this story is, based upon true events, it was terribly sad to see how many lives were ruined and scarred from their jaunt to Berlin and other European places trying to escape the publicity they were creating. All along they felt they were being tormented and harassed by the press, that they were the victims. This book appears to be well-researched for the actual events of the two main characters even though it is a novel. I will not spoil the ending, but this must have been some scandal in its day especially for anyone in Chicago during that time. I would highly recommend this as a very interesting book, a piece of our architectural history and the precursor to the "women's movement" and "women's liberation" ideals.
Set in the first decade of the 1900‘s, Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan is part soap opera, part Architectural Digest, part travel guide and a must read for feminists and Frank Lloyd Wright-ophiles alike. It’s easy to see how the uber-talented Wright struggled to make a name for himself and his Organic Architecture in the stifling mindset of the early 20th century. Wright, who liked to say he saw God in nature, strove to make his buildings so in tune with their natural surroundings it looked as though the buildings were birthed from the very ground upon which they sat. It’s also easy to see how an intellectual feminist, suffragette and very married woman, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, gave up everything she thought was hers: devoted husband, Edwin; two beautiful children; a warm relationship with her sister, Lizzie who had sacrificed much to put Mamah through college; and a cushy, affluent lifestyle in the suburbs of Chicago; and threw in her lot with Wright. Mamah was married -- one of the few options open to women at the time -- but not terribly happy. She’d turned over the raising of her children to their nanny and busied herself with women’s issues and lectures at the University, but couldn’t really find her niche. She and Edwin were more like partners who ran a home and raised children together rather than soul mates. Along came Wright, flamboyant, eccentric and completely self-assured in his craft, despite the lack of a formal architectural education, with charisma and genius out the wazoo. Married at the immature age of 19, Wright had six children with his wife, Catherine, and while Catherine threw herself into their children, Wright threw himself into his work and giving “his gift†to the world. Mamah loved Edwin in a way, but Frank’s marriage to Catherine had been a shell for years. Still she would not give Frank a divorce. Frank and Mamah’s relationship started innocently enough, he the up and coming architect with wild new ideas, and she the sublime intellectual with her feminist ideals and steady husband, the clients, yet the magnetism between Frank and Mamah was inescapable. A spark ignited, one that almost sent the lovers up in flames after the media in Oak Park got wind of the scandal They tried to fight it for the sake of their families, but the pull was too great so they ran to escape, these two highly individualized citizens of the world, to Germany where Mamah met the Swedish writer and feminist, Ellen Key a meeting that again altered her life. Mamah took a solo trip to Sweden to learn the language as a prerequisite to being hired to translate Key’s works into German and English and then she and Frank were in Paris, and Italy, and Japan and with much trepidation on Mamah’s part, finally back home to Wisconsin, Wright’s boyhood home, where he built Taliesin East, an architectural marvel and the first place since childhood that Mamah truly felt she belonged. At the time it was the consummate dwelling and encompassed all Wright believed about organic architecture. Perhaps in the 21st century, the lovers could have lived at Taliesin in peace, but the early 1900’s was not a broad-minded, forgiving time. That the book ends in tragedy is both shocking and expected. The world wasn’t ready for this kind of love, and maybe not even this kind of architecture, but their love, like Nature herself, was resilient, and the legacy lives on through Wright’s masterpieces, and now, Horan’s writing.
Thinking that Loving Frank was a historical biography about Frank Lloyd Wright and becauseI I was familiar with his architectural style and buildings, I decided to spread my wings a bit into this genre.“I 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.â€This caught me from the very beginning and is the crux of the story. Loving Frank is not about Frank Lloyd Wright as it is about Mamah Borthwick Cheney... a mother, a wife and a woman amidst the growing women’s movement in this country. Frank was a spoilt child who was doted upon by his mother and he grew up to be a self centered and arrogant man with extraordinary talent and a gift but still doted upon by his mother. Yes, he had many good qualities and attributes; but it was Mamah who brought these out in him. Loving Frank was not easy for Mamah.Reading Loving Frank is not easy for the reader either. One has to put aside personal feelings and judgement of Mamah. If you can do that, I think you will find something well worth reading.* I suggest that you read Loving Frank FIRST and then go to Wikipedia and look up Frank Lloyd Wright. I think this will help the pieces to fall into place without spoilers.
I bought this book shortly after touring Grey Cliff, the Frank Lloyd Wright designed lake house located near Buffalo, NY. I had also toured the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo the year before. This book helped me to better understand Mr. Wright's drive and to further appreciate his desire to incorporate the design of his structures with the earth and nature of the location. But it is so much more. It is a beautifully written account of a woman's struggle for autonomy in a world where women were considered property. I was struck by how much of that struggle is still part of my own world today.
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