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Synopsis
When the birth of their eleven tiny infants brings celebrity to the Franks of Three Chimneys, Virginia, a presidential hopeful pays them a visit. In his honor, Margaret Prickett sets out to re-create the Mammoth Cheese, a 1,235-pound wheel of Cheshire made by Thomas Jefferson's supporters. Here is a deliciously incisive portrait of rural life, the debts we owe history and our families, and the many ways we declare independence.
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Sheri Holman's The Mammoth Cheese is the Mississippi River of novels. It winds along through most of the great themes of American fiction (tradition vs. innovation, the weight of the past, the dehumanizing effects of industrialization, the rifts between parents and children, men and women), picking up bits of history along the way, and carrying you wherever Holman wishes. The opening pages introduce at least 15 characters (not including the 11 premature babies born to dog trainer Manda Frank), a rough outline of the history of Three Chimneys, Virginia, and more information on small-farm cheesemaking than you might ever have thought you'd would want to learn, let alone absorb with fascination. Along with its moving themes, the pleasures of this novel are in Holman's grasp of human (and not only human) nature, and her gift for expressing this through unexpected details of daily life--that the cows in the local dairy give more milk when Sinatra's playing; that the dirty secret under an eighth-grade girl's mattress is Bride Magazine. Her inconspicuous flashes of verbal brilliance may go unnoticed by all but the most observant readers, but they lend sparkle to a complex and ambitious novel. --Regina Marler
About the Author
Sheri Holman is the author of A Stolen Tongue; Th e Dress Lodger, a New York Times Notable Book; and Th e Mammoth Cheese, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and a San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0786260661
- ISBN 13 9780786260669
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages726
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