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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Read-a-Likes for Loving Frank

Loving Frank is a work of historial fiction, stressing the biographical fiction of the lives of Frank Llyod Wright and Mamah Cheney. Other novels of this type are now on display at the Tipp City Public Library:
Moon Rising by Ann Victoria Roberts- a novel of a love affair between Bram Stocker and a local photograph model
Sylvia and Ted by Emma Tennant- a novel about the courtship, marriage and separation of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
The Photograph by Penelope Lively-explores a woman's beauty and its collision with her own happiness, sister's rivalry and lovers' cooling, a marriage in supreme crisis and the cost of professional "success"as life unfolds. (taken from the book jacket)
Pictures from an Expedition by Diane Smith-literary historical fiction set in 1876.
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates-biographical fiction worked in the author's imagination.
Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston- imagines the life of F. Scott Fitzgerld's muse from his early attachment to Ginevra King whom he named Daisy in his great work of fiction.
Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon-American fiction placed in the hometown of Dewey, Owosso, Michigan, with a love triangle that takes place on election night, 1948.

2 comments:

Linda Robertson Lowman said...

Owosso, Michigan is the home town of Dewey NOT Truman. It's a great little city in the heart of mid-Micigan.

Carolyn Rector said...

Thank you for the correction.