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A review by houyhnhnm64
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
4.0
Can the price for true love ever be too high? To what extent can your exert your own individuality, when that clearly infringes on the well-being of others? In particular when these others are your own children? And, what is important, a career? Or a family?
These are some of the questions Nancy Horan addresses - though perhaps not answers (she is too sophisticated a writer to provide clear answers) - in her novel Loving Frank.
And although the context of the novel is the early 20th century, when female emancipation stood at another level than it does today, the questions are no less valid today. But this, I am sure, the author has realised only too well.
Loving Frank is a well-accomplished book, fraught with intelligent and sensitive dialogue, that has provided me with a very satisfying reading experience. And I also learned something along the way about the famous Frank Lloyd Wright.
These are some of the questions Nancy Horan addresses - though perhaps not answers (she is too sophisticated a writer to provide clear answers) - in her novel Loving Frank.
And although the context of the novel is the early 20th century, when female emancipation stood at another level than it does today, the questions are no less valid today. But this, I am sure, the author has realised only too well.
Loving Frank is a well-accomplished book, fraught with intelligent and sensitive dialogue, that has provided me with a very satisfying reading experience. And I also learned something along the way about the famous Frank Lloyd Wright.