Sheri Holman

The Mammoth Cheese Sheri Holman

Publisher Marketing: An "Our Town" for our times, "The Mammoth Cheese" is beautifully crafted and driven by warm, vibrant characters as it follows the residents of rural Three Chimneys, Virginia, on their journey to re-create the original Thomas Jefferson-era, 1,235-pound Mammoth Cheese. As the audiobook opens, the town is joyously celebrating the birth of the Frank Eleven: eleven babies simultaneously born to Manda and James Frank after fertility treatments. But as autumn progresses and the babies weaken, the community seeks to redeem itself through the making and transporting of a symbolic Mammoth Cheese to Washington, as a gift for the newly elected President Brooke. The cheese is the brainchild of August Vaughn, a farmhand by day and a President Jefferson impersonator by night, and the creation of Margaret Prickett, a single mother and cheese maker trying to save her century-old family farm. Sheri Holman seamlessly weaves together the lives of Three Chimneys, delving into her characters inescapable family histories as they grapple with religion, divorce, politics, and unrequited love. "The Mammoth Cheese" is a triumphant exploration of the burdens and joys of rural America and the debts we owe to history, our parents, and ourselves." Review Citations: New York Times 07/25/2004 pg. 20 (EAN 9780802141354, Paperback) Kliatt 09/01/2004 pg. 21 (EAN 9780802141354, Paperback) Kliatt 01/01/2004 pg. 49 (EAN 9781593551155, Compact Disc) Library Journal 04/01/2004 pg. 137 (EAN 9781593551155, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2003 pg. 62 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) USA Today 05/22/2003 pg. 1 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/09/2003 pg. 33 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 06/01/2003 pg. 166 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2003 pg. 825 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) - *Starred Review BookPage 08/01/2003 pg. 12 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 08/08/2003 pg. 78 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2003 pg. 1953 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) New York Times 08/17/2003 pg. 16 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) People Weekly 08/25/2003 pg. 44 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2003 09/01/2003 pg. 1 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2003 pg. 28 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Library Journal 04/01/2003 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 457 (EAN 9780871139009, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Holman, Sheri 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. Contributor Bio:  Merlington, Laural Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks, including works by Margaret Atwood and Alice Hoffman, and is the recipient of several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks.