LOVING FRANK
Book ID/图书代码： 01240006B01535
English Summary/英文概要： I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.
In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright.
Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan’s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamah’s is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leading inexorably ultimately lead to this novel’s stunning conclusion.
Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你是我生命中註定、卻難以說出口的諾言。
我逾越一切去愛，只爲了證明：
是的，有那麼短暫的刹那，我真正地活著……
二十世紀天才建築師萊特與其靈魂伴侶梅瑪短暫卻永恆、激情又令人心痛的愛情故事
一九〇三年，
梅瑪和她先生愛德溫•錢尼委託同樣居住在橡樹園的鄰居建築師法蘭克•洛依德•萊特為他們設計新居，
即使梅瑪和法蘭克都已婚，
兩人依舊產生了強烈的情愫。
開始了一段不見容於當時社會的婚外情。
是否在看似幸福的關係背後，
總隱藏了某些不為人知的缺憾，與等待填補的失落？
當聰慧知性的梅瑪遇到才氣縱橫的建築師萊特，
原本安定平穩的生活，
再也無法滿足彼此追求靈魂伴侶的渴望。
這段震驚了當時社會的戀情，也永遠改變了他們的人生，
然而，就在他們爲了追求真愛而克服重重阻礙后，
厄運卻無情地降臨到她身上……
《愛上萊特》是情節有所本德虛構作品，
以才華洋溢但行事作風引人非議的建築師法蘭克•萊特和其戀人梅瑪•錢尼的戀愛故事為主軸，
用獨特的女性視角，娓娓道出女人面對愛情選擇的迷茫，
追求人格自由的內心衝突，以及困於家庭道德與子女親情之間的掙扎。
優美精簡的文字，以及逼真的第一人稱心情自剖，深深刻畫了這段戀情和被愛情折磨主角的內心掙扎，下筆委婉卻高潮迭起。
本書是作者南西•霍蘭初試啼聲之作，甫出版即高踞暢銷榜，
且獲得專門獎勵以美國歷史為寫書主題的庫柏獎，更成為讀書會熱烈討論的話題書籍。霍蘭久居的橡樹園，昔日曾是萊特工作室與故居，在地緣關係下，她對這段不被祝福的戀情產生興趣，於是花了七年時間收集資料，不但盡力拼湊出梅瑪的生命細節，也從另一個面向讓讀者看見了萊特對建築的信念與堅持。
如果你曾經為《麥迪遜之橋》中女主角的抉擇感到欷歔，《愛上萊特》將會帶給你更多深思。
Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold: Italian, Swedish, Hebrew, Portuguese
2007 九月2號暢銷排行榜 第五名
Rights sold to date: UK/BCOM (Hodder); Italian (Einaudi); Swedish (Bonniers); Spanish (Alfaguara); Hebrew (Modan); Portuguese-Brazil (Rocco); Bulgarian (Era); Turkish (Artemis).
*Loving Frank by Nancy Horan has won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians for outstanding historical fiction. Previous winners include Philip Roth and Thomas Mullen.
Here is a link for further information
http://www.sah.columbia.edu/prizes/cooper.html
/Vicky/09-4-2
Amazon書店2007編輯嚴選100、2007 Best100
獲2009年庫柏獎（以美國為主體的歷史小說獎）
英國查理與茱迪圖書俱樂部選書推薦
《華盛頓郵報》、《芝加哥論壇報》年度最佳好書。
紐約時報、獨立書商協會暢銷榜
這是一部羅曼史，一段建築大師的傳奇軼事，也是一個女人耗盡靈魂，捍衛自由與愛情的動人故事
About the Author/作者介绍： Nancy Horan, a former journalist and longtime resident of Oak Park, Illinois, now lives and writes on an island in Puget Sound.
南西•霍蘭
身兼作者和記者二職，作品見諸報章雜誌。
她和擔任攝影師的丈夫凱文與兩個兒子
住在華盛頓洲普吉灣的島上。
《愛上萊特》是她的第一本小說
她的網站：www.lovingfrank.com。
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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