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The Mammoth Cheese - Sheri Holman

 
Description: ISBN 1844081273 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Sheri Holman / Paperback / 480 Pages / Book is published 2004-08-05 by Virago Press Ltd

Newest Review: ... to deal with everything (including a court case brought against her "on behalf" of the children who didn't ... more

 ... survive). Meanwhile, Margaret Prickett's cheesemaking farm is failing, and she decides to make the mammoth cheese of the title and take it to Washington to get media attention for herself and other struggling small farms and to hold the newly elected president to his promises. She is so busy with this and the electoral campaign for the man she thinks will save her, she fails to notice that the pastor's son August Vaughn is in love with her, and her daughter Polly is falling in love with her charismatic, rebellious history te...more

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Premium Review The Mammoth Cheese - Sheri Holman: Not a mammoth hit (671 words)
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"The Mammoth Cheese" is rather a mammoth story. It's about a small town in Virginia, called Three Chimneys, and the people who live there during the time after the town first gets a lot of media attention when one of the women gives birth to eleven babies. Manda Frank, didn't want eleven babies, who would? She wanted one, having already had one daughter, and generally preferring her dogs to people. But she gives birth to all eleven, after the local pastor convinces her not to selectively abort any, and as a result makes the national news, and is bombarded with gifts and offers of help that she would rather not need. Her old house was too small and a ...  Read the complete review

 

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