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Jun 17, 2013WVMLBookClubTitles rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Loving Frank is the fictionalized account of the affair between renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney, a client who, with her husband Edwin, had commissioned Wright to design a house. The novel explores and embellishes the intriguing facts: in 1909 Wright and Cheney each left their spouses and children and embarked together for Europe; they moved back to the US amidst media frenzy and built the “Taliesin” house in Wisconsin; in 1914, truth being stranger than fiction, the story ended abruptly when Mamah, her two visiting children and several others were murdered by a disgruntled, mentally unstable employee. The novel is also a fascinating glimpse into some of the radical ideas of the intellectual community at the turn of the century. Being based on real people, the plot is somewhat bound by the facts. But the facts present a rich and fascinating array of questions concerning freedom, responsibility, morality, self-actualization, and the pursuit of artistic vision.