Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Loving Frank: A Novel
Book Review: Loving Frank is a book to love
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is incredible! The research it took writer Nancy Horan before writing this book is immense. The detail, discriptions, observations and love of Frank resonates on many levels in this truly great book. It is a tragic and wonderful love story and an important part of American history.
lLoving Frank: A Novel
Book Review: Great read.
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this book immensely. I hope Ms. Horan continues to write about strong women in recent US history.Book Review: Loving Frank
Summary: 5 Stars
Book was in excellent condition, can't say I exactly enjoyed the content, but I always order book club selections from Amazon easy ,fastBook Review: Loving Mamah....
Summary: 4 Stars
While I really enjoyed this novel and was captivated by the romance between Mamah and Frank Lloyd Wright in the first few years of the 20th Century, I really LOVED Mamah's character and found her extremely relatable, complex and indeed a woman ahead of her time. Her only condition/vice/weakness was her love for a man not her husband, for which her society shunned her, and perhaps rightly so.
What bothered me about Mamah's character was the ease with which she abandon her children for her own romantic happiness, something I personally find so hard to imagine. However, despite my inabiltiy to comprehend this aspect of her character, I still had enormous respect for her as a woman, admired her lifestyle, and continued to "root for her" throughout the novel.
While some will argue that Mamah was the love of Frank's life, I never truly felt his love for her came close to hers for him. It is true he abandoned his wife and their children to live with Mamah in Talesin, however, I believe even if Mamah never come along, his journey may have led him to live apart from them nonetheless. Frank seemed, from this novel, a man obsessed with his work, his ideals, and his idea of truth (despite his affair), all of which he valued above his love for Mamah. While there is no doubt they were in love, it seemed (as the name of the novel suggests) that this is really Mamah's story of loving Frank, more than a love of equality or of her being the love of his life.
I HIGHLY recommend this novel and know avid readers will welcome and love this novel.
Book Review: Tragic but Well Spun Saga
Summary: 4 Stars
LOVING FRANK is a compelling and beautifully spun saga of the romance between Wright and MahMah. For those of us too old to have followed the love life and architectural career of Frank Lloyd Wright, the book provides a sympathetic and thoroughly engrossing look into the life of one of the most creative Americans of the twentieth century. It is a great read for book clubs in addition to simply being a wonderfully enlightening account of an amazing life.