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lu
Chicago, IL

You'll be LOVING FRANK yourself from the first chapter

5 star rating

a fiction reader, Love a great vacation read!, Chicagoan at heart
Pros

    based on a true story, Includes places you can further research, Interesting historical fiction, Twisted love story


DEC
31
2008

Nancy Horan's Loving Frank is a historical fictional account of the life and love of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mahmah Borthwick.  The book is fascinating, romantic and a page turner.  There is the painstaking love...but the book dives deeply into the debate that is still raging today: a woman's place.  Mahmeh is a bright and ambitious woman, a deep thinker, driven by devotion to Frank and her desire to do something big with her life.  She is not your average women in 1903.  As the reader, we are drawn in by her honesty and her smarts yet we may not always be so sure of the choices she makes. 

Horan is a gifted and beautiful writer, and she declares it took her seven years to write Loving Frank.  The book weaves together fictional accounts, newspaper clippings, diary entries and letters. Loving Frank is set in Oak Park, IL and Spring Green, WI and travels to pre-WWI Berlin, Paris and Florence.  Horan provides glorious descriptions of the architecture, art and culture of the time.

 I picked it up and was hooked from the first page.  Find the time to Love Frank too!

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AnnaBanana wrote on Nov 18, 2009 at 5:41PM

Thanks so much for putting this review out there! I didn't grab this book when it first came out and I have been driving myself crazy trying to remember the name of either the book OR the author. I live in Oak Park and the house that FLW desiged for Mameh and her husband used to be a bed and breakfast operated by the lawyer who lived there. I think he has gone out of the B&B business now but I spent a weekend in Mameh's house a few years ago, renting one of the suites in the basement level which FLW had designed to accommodate the many relatives of Mameh who loved to come and visit.

I enjoyed my stay very much -- when it comes to architecture, obviously FLW knew what he as doing and it was a lovely place but I wouldn't have wanted to stay any longer there. I would sometimes think about Mameh's dark tragic story, it really haunted me while I was there.

Took a lot of pictures too -- alas, most of them did not turn out well. I've got a few somewhere and would like t find them as I would like to write an article for Associated Content about the house and its background.

Well, didn't I go on and on but I really liked your review. Have a nice Thanksgving.

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