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

Horan, Nancy

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ISBN 10: 0340919442 ISBN 13: 9780340919446

Casa editrice: Two Roads, 2008

Riassunto

In the internationally bestselling vein of The Paris Wife and Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald this biographical novel is set in the early 1900s when polite Chicago society was rocked by terrible scandal when 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 an unnatural mother and society relished her persecution. 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 fulfilment and personal happiness. Headstrong and honest, her love for Frank was unstoppable. This portrait of her life as his muse and soulmate is a moving, passionate and timeless love story with a shocking conclusion.

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Recensione:

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, author of City of Light)

This graceful, assured first novel . . . is engrossing, provocative reading. (Scott Turow)

A riveting historical novel. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Horan does an impressive job of rescuing Mamah from the footnotes of history . . . This compelling read sheds light on an ill-fated relationship from the foundations up (Independent)

Outstanding... Nancy Horan has found an untold tale of a famous couple that rocked society at the start of the last century, and she tells it with gut wrenching raw emotion that could not fail to stir even the hardest heart. (Daily Mail)

Enthralling (New York Times)

A novel of impressive scope and ambition (Washington Post)

L'autore:

Nancy Horan is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications. Loving Frank is her first novel. She lived most of her life in Oak Park, IL - on the same street as the Cheney house - until her recent move to Puget Sound.

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• Editore: Two Roads
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0340919442
• ISBN 13: 9780340919446
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432