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In this ambitious debut novel, fact and While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.
Advance praise for Loving Frank:
“Loving Frank is one of those novels that takes over your life.
During the construction of the prose. The attention to period detail. The epic proportions of this most fascinating love story.
Four years earlier, in 1903, 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. Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them.
In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.
Advance praise for Loving Frank:
“Loving Frank is one of those novels that takes over your life.
During the construction of the prose.
In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly.
While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.
Advance praise for Loving Frank:
“Loving Frank is one of those novels that takes over your life. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention.
Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a story that unfolds with riveting urgency.” –Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light
“This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the prose.
While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on 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 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. The attention to period detail.
The epic proportions of this most fascinating love story.
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