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Loving Frank

Nancy Horan

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Apr 04, 2014 Celia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I have read this book twice and LOVED it both times. It is the story of Mamah Bouton Borthwick Cheney and her love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright.

Broken down into Three Parts, it not only describes the liaison, but also the mores and thinking of the time.

Part I- their meeting and budding romance.

Edwin Cheney wanted an uncluttered house. Being president of Wagner Electric, Edwin could afford to hire Frank Lloyd Wright to design it. Little did Edwin know how much his own life would change.

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Mar 17, 2010 Book Concierge rated it really liked it

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4.5 stars.
This work of fiction attempts to tell the story of Mamah Chaney and her love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. It is told strictly from Mamah’s perspective and we learn of the effect her actions had on others only through her final realizations … however late they come.

The writing is very personal and intimate and so the story is compelling. I wavered between feeling in tune with Mamah and being exasperated with her. She had such blinders for much of Frank’s flaws, and for her own.

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