Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan, is perhaps one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. It combines architecture, history and love in a way that few readings do. It is a romance based on real facts as if perceived by Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Frank Lloyd Wright’s second wife.It is known that he had a very scandalous life with affairs, gossip, debts and murders. Mamah has been part of all this because of her modern perspectives of life. In a time when few would dare to go against society laws, she was the very essence of strenght to stand for what she believed.
The book is divided in three parts. The first one is about how they met and started their affair -Mamah was Wright's client's wife. The second part is their lives in Europe, after leaving the United States, spouses and children behind. That is when Mamah met Ellen Key, the revolutionary Sweden feminist, to whom she was translator. The third part is the settlement in Taliesin, the house Frank projected for them and where the stunning end occurs.
A guaranteed read. Behind a successful man, there is a strong woman!
"We were more then merely happy even when momentarily miserable..." Frank Lloyd Wright about Mamah Borthwick Cheney
Link to the website: http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/lovingfrank
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